I finished up glassing in the stern bearing and got that all sealed up. I bought a new bronze bolt and installed that. I wanted to put a dripless stuffing box in but after ton of research I decided to go a different way. This was mostly because there was no way to fit it. With the old stuffing box there is about an inch of clearance to the coupling. So I went with a new packing which is called GFO. This is made from some high tech material and is designed to be put into place and left alone. I tightened it down a bit and the after it was in the water I backed off quite a bit. It didn't leak at all.
Over the course of the winter I fabricated a new engine panel box. I made it out of fiberglass using the old broken one as a mold. I installed this using butyl tape and installed the panel back in. I had gone through the wiring and removed many wires that were not being used.
I Kiwi Gripped the nonskid on the lower deck as the old finish was quite slippery.
I went to work on the nav station. I have never liked the idea of a nav station as there is very little use for one now days. Ours was a very thin box under the opening lid. It just wasn't thick enough to anything more than some pencils in there so I cut out the bottom where it overhangs and built a deeper box that fits in there.
I finished reinsulating the ice box by glassing in the plywood and then painting it with Brightside
I hired out the aligning of the motor to Alec Binder who had done some work for me before.
I installed all 4 new batteries this spring. I purchased 4 new Lifeline group 27 AGM batteries to replace the gels that were in there. I had to adjust the regulator on the alternator to AGM setting.
I also installed a new 35lb Mantus anchor which fit quite well on the bow roller.
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