We spent the whole day at the Ericson, we have the forward v-birth totally clean with all of the mildew removed and all of the teak cleaned and then oiled . The main salon everything was removed and all hatches were opened up and cleaned. The port side has some water damage on the upper shelf and the teak liner at the windows, after looking at your photos I am looking to replace the wood with Formica. Everything again was cleaned with teak cleaner and then oiled really well. I also got part of the kitchen sink area cleaned back up, and was looking at the condition of the thru hulls and valves. The starboard side was just as bad as the port, muddobbers have several nest in rear areas and we had to scurb the teak several times to get the staining to remove. It really is starting to come together inside, the cushions have been removed and taken to our "interior seamstress" my wife sister. She has all the sewing stuff as she used to make high end childrens clothes. I still have allot to get done before removing the floor.
Some questions:
is it common for deisel to be ontop of the tank, you can see that it is the gas tank, there was the presence of deisel next to the wires comming from the tank.
Can someone give me the location and funtion of all the thruhulls and seacocks. I want to make sure I am shutting the correct stuff off.
We have a furler on the boat, reading the pages of tuning, ect. Is the boat going to be overpowered with a 130% genoa? Would it be better to have a 100% jib cut that would be a deck sweeper? I know that with a genoa on a furler that the foot of the sail is going to be high on the deck causing the boat to heel more..
Thanks