Today the weather quite ok to work on the underwater hull. I have sanded up to 20 cm old paint below the waterline and sanded the rest. Where the antifouling was abraded, I first painted with primer and then provided the entire hull with new antifouling.
On March 19th we had the opportunity to visit the X-Yacht Yard in Haderslev as a part of the winter program of the club. Approximately 20 members took the opportunity to look behind the scenes of a boatyard. Thorsten (Toddi) Bastiansen led us through the company and told a lot about the history of the shipyard and the individual construction stages of a yacht. Here you could see clearly, that Toddi is a “X-Yachter” with body and soul . He claimed that he does have an Read more…
Another step is done. The fuel cell is installed. This required a lot to be rebuilt on board. As a locker was released by the reconstruction of the oven, I have now installed the entire electrical system here. But since there was not enough space due to the hull shape, I have built a small platform on which the inverter is placed. First, the two batteries came into it. In addition, the tank for the fuel cell and the fuel cell itself. Read more…
The next point of the spring campaign was the installation of an inspection hatch for the water tank. The old hatch was made of plastic glas. You could easily see whether the tank was cleaner not, but not clean it without loosening a lot of screws. That’s why I needed a new hatch that can be opened quickly. Here are the pictures of the rebuild.
Today, it finally happened. The windows in the bow were installed. I had active help from my friend Svend. The individual steps you see in the photo documentation.
The oven was until now always in one of the large lockers and had to be laboriously dug out every time. That’s why I decided to pull the oven out on rails from an unused locker if needed. Here are the first steps of this conversion in a series of photographs.
