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Interior
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This is looking
aft towards the lazarette. The members seen here are part of a
bulkhead in that area; despite the charring, they are sound, more or
less. |
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This is one of
the mizzen chainplates; despite the sloppy construction, there is little
fire damage. |
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The other mizzen
chainplate. These are sloppy and chintzy, but have worked for 40
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 This is looking
forward towards the galley bulkhead in the port cockpit locker, where
most of the fire-related hull damage occurred. The owner ground out
much of the bad fiberglass, including large latent defects and
construction voids--like this area shown. The surrounding laminate
seems sound. |
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This is the
underside of the port quarterdeck, showing the complete absence of an
inner skin. That's the underside of the balsa core there, showing
a few grinder marks from the owner. |
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Looking aft along
the port quarterdeck inside, showing the droopy fiberglass and general
mess. |
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Looking forward
into the cabin through the after galley bulkhead, separating the lockers
from the cabin. This bulkhead is pretty heavily charred, yet
amazingly sound. |
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This is another
view of the underside of the port quarterdeck. |
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Looking aft in
the starboard cockpit locker. This side, other than smoke and
water damage, escaped any serious fire damage, amazingly. |
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Another view of
the starboard cockpit locker. |
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Looking forward
in the starboard cockpit locker. |
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Starboard cockpit
locker, looking aft. |
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On the way home,
I ran into this at the New Hampshire tolls. What fun.
Columbus Day weekend...never gave it a thought when scheduling my trip.
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This boat is years away from the water, at least in completely rebuilt
form. To my eye, she needs absolutely everything. Much of
what is there could, in theory, be saved and reused, but given my own
propensity to want my own layout and personalization, I doubt I'd reuse
much. I'd also plan on removing almost all charred wood, no matter
how sound, and on replacing the galley bulkhead and portions of the
lazarette.
The cockpit and surrounding decks require
substantial rebuilding, the headliner in the cabin probably needs
to be cut out and a new method of hiding the raw fiberglass installed,
and the interior requires rebuilding. The hull and deck require
repainting--after stripping--and the boat needs all systems from the get go.
Plus, there's all the personalization that I would want to do, and
cosmetics, and...........the list is endless.
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It's a huge, long-term project, and
work will get underway in earnest sometime in 2005.
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