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ClownTrigger11 on
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I went back and looked at it again last night and stuck my head into every nook and cranny I could. I took a ton more pictures and have them
shared here. I'm less worried about the keel now that I've taken a better look at it. The gap between the hull at the aft end is smaller than I remember, and it's aft of all of the bolts. I'm not even going to worry about it for now, but monitor on next haul out.
After looking in the port cockpit locker again, I do see an access panel for the engine that I didn't notice before. This should be sufficient for access, but I may still put a metal hatch on the cockpit sole just to make it easier to check the sail drive oil.
I also found a few issues which should be fairly easy to address. Both aft pulpit tubes are coming away from the toe rail. Looks like someone tried to weld the stainless tubes to the aluminum toe rail at some point, which obviously failed. I should have looked under the toe rail there but forgot. I'm guessing the pulpit has a threaded hole at the bottom which accepts a bolt from under the flange. Shouldn't be too big a deal to fix.
The port chainplate appears to have one of its two thru-deck bolts broken. The head is on top, but nothing coming through the headliner.
The water pump is shot (the broker told me as much) but looks like it has been for some time and has rusted out the bellhousing.
Looking at some of the records, it looks like the previous owner was told at some point that the motor is a MD11C, but it's most definitely a MD5C (maybe B, but probably C due to timeframe). I doubt that this has caused any trouble, but it's interesting.
Motor mounts look shot as well.
Sail drive bellows looks pretty old, as expected.
There's no holding tank that I see, unless it's under the head. It looks like the head is plumbed straight to the thru-hull. I'm pretty sure that's a big fine waiting to happen. The "seacocks" for the head are garbage home depot PVC ball valves connected to plastic thruhulls.
It looks like the mast step is missing something on the forward side. Should there be a bolt or something there? Doesn't look like it would attach underneath though? Maybe for a spinnaker pole downhaul?
There is substantially more water in the bilge now. Unknown where it's coming in from, but it's somewhere for sure. We've had a ton of rain lately, so I'm not surprised. I'm glad it isn't more.
There are pictures of all of the goodies that I found on board as well. How about that GPS??! I wonder if it's Y2K compliant lol
The tiller pilot looks basically brand new, but is probably almost as old as the boat.
I would have liked to have pulled out the sails, but it was muddy and getting dark. I didn't see the storm jib anywhere.
The broker is coming back from vacation tomorrow and I told him that I'm ready to start talking numbers. If you see any other issues that might be a huge problem, let me know before I make a mistake.
Thanks again all.
-Greg