Major Refit
- Jul 17, 2009
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Finally got a chance to play with this web site. Hope you like the photos - not quite travel photos of exotic destinations yet. While we have been cruising on Windana since 1999, she officially became land-locked in February 2008. Poor girl has been high and dry for 18 months undergoing some much needed TLC and a reasonably major refit. We undertook many different tasks, including a complete respray, installation of stainless steel fuel tanks, the addition of a second motor and re engineering of Windana's stern and rudders.
Original stern/transom steps as below:
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Chopped off the old transoms and built new ones (changing the underwater exit):
20 Refit 19 March 2008 1 Refit 19 Mar 2008 7 Refit 19 March 2008 10 Refit 19 March 2008 40 Refit 23 March 2008 97 Refit 30 July 2008 107 Refit 30 July 2008 106 Refit 30 July 2008 104 Refit 30 July 2008
Doubled the nacra size on the rudders:
101 Refit 30 July 2008_edited 155 Refit 14 Dec 2008 361 Refit 25 Aug 2009
After spending the first ten years cruising with only one trusty Yanmar 30 hp motor, finally purchased and rebuilt one for the starboard engine room:
79 Refit 30 July 2008 90 Refit 30 July 2008 151 Refit 14 Dec 2008 290 Refit 18 July 2009
Re-sealed windows. Also removed the front ones, replacing them with lovely huge opening hatches:
75 Refit 30 July 2008 74 Refit 30 July 2008 72 Refit 30 July 2008 279 Refit 17 July 2009
Some internal construction - a new bathroom cupboard; shelves for Sarah; desk for Nathan:
bathroom cupboard 286 Refit 18 July 2009 285 Refit 18 July 2009 Bathroom cupboard 238 Refit 10 Jun 2009 180 Refit 25 Feb 2009
Plenty of faring, sanding, masking, hibuild and painting:
197 Refit 3 May 2009_edited 202 Refit 3 May 2009 194 Refit 3 May 2009 193 Refit 3 May 2009 200 Refit 3 May 2009 163 Refit 14 Feb 2009 167 Refit 14 Feb 2009 147 Refit 14 Dec 2008 186 Refit 18 Mar 2009 184 Refit 18 Mar 2009 177 Refit 25 Feb 2009 192 Refit 18 Mar 2009
Name back in place - thank you Garry and Wendy xx:
302 Refit 26 July 2009 299 Refit 18 July 2009
So shiny:
214 Refit 8 May 2009 212 Refit 8 May 2009 273 Refit 17 July 2009 258 Refit 10 Jun 2009 329 Refit 23 Aug 2009 328 Refit 23 Aug 2009 211 Refit 8 May 2009 203 Refit 8 May 2009
Some work on the mast:
IMG_0121 124 Refit 20 Oct 2008
Soon we will be back where we belong - in the water!!!
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