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VC17 is just antifouling paint. The only area of the keel that could not be painted until it was in the slings. I was pulling the trailer around while she painted the last bit, which is why I did not get a chance to inspect this. How did you get to the bottom area of the keel unless you left...

here is a picture. Not everything is hooked up yet, but it gives you an idea of what I worked out.

I have pulled my ports and sealed differently than original. I believe this way will work better and last longer. I completely removed the ports. Just unscrew the inside flange. Then the port will be free to pry out by carefully separating the port from the cutout. This may take a little...

The boat has undergone a major restoration this past winter. It was stored inside heated. Everything, I mean everything that was bolted down on the deck was pulled up, overbored, potted, refilled, redrilled, and rebedded. This included the rub rail. The entire deck is completely clean of any...

On my e27, I have all lines returned to the cockpit using stand up blocks at the mast base and deck organizers to pivot around the hatches. The lines lead back to a rope clutches and then cabin top winches. I replaced the primary winches (which are likely undersized to begin) with some Lewmar...

I just launched my e27 last Monday. The boat has never really taken on much water before, but I noticed that the fore keel bolt area (where I think they originally attached to lift the boat) has a slow leak. I dry the area out and notice it just slowly fills back up again. I have gone weeks...

I pulled my A4 last summer while it was still in the water. It was actually quite easy. I had never done anything remotely this big on the boat before (E27). My dock neighbor had done it before on his pearson. He used a pully system off his boom to get it out of the cockpit then bolted it to...

Solid Nav electric motor Mark- The prop I had existing was a two blade 9" and barely got me moving 3 knots. I was actually nervous trying to make it out the channel a few times into 3-4ft waves and head wind. I reproped experimentally with a CDI (plastic prop) two blade 13/10 which cuts it...

Ericson 27 repower to electric I have an E27 that I pulled the A4 last month and have installed the solid nav explorer 48v electric motor. After reprop, I have plenty of power but not sure of my range yet. Having to work out the details on a monitoring system and also, some kind of back up so...