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great pictures man.

-cody

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All i can say is WOW. I am impressed with your patience!!!  Great pics, you should now know your boat quite well!!

Is there any core in the coachroof? If so how is it doin?

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Very impressive! Thanks for the upload

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I am very impressed... a huge project!  Thanks for putting up the pics.

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Oh...my...god!!!!  And I thought rebedding a bow pulpit for the 2nd time was a bother....heavens!!!  Way to go, a true labour of love, hey?!  But you will totally know your boat after this, and she will be worth it!!!  Thanks so much for taking all the pictures!!!!  I assume there was a galley fire??  And gee, you almost had an aft cabin there for awhile!  I like your shelter setup - makes it easier for you working "indoors" like that!  We all feel for you! ;-)

“You get a boat for only one reason, because you want one.  If you’re worried about being practical, forget boats.”

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Oh, was that damage to the mast step there??  What happened, and how did you fix it?
You have done an amazing job of fixing the fibreglass openings ;-)  in the boat!!  And you are right, plywood for a core is the worst.... you cut yours right out, didn't you?  Did you replace with marine ply? Or just big slabs o' glass?  I am going to enlarge the pics at home, sneakingly looking at them all at the office here!
Thanks again, and yes, we are crazy about our boats! ;-)

“You get a boat for only one reason, because you want one.  If you’re worried about being practical, forget boats.”

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It's now an "open concept" Contessa 26.  But I have arranged for a sheet of 1/2 teak ply that will become some new bulkheads eventually.

The damage at the mast beam is just the liner cracking.  On the earlier boats, the two posts in the cabin are not attached to the floor or the mast support crossmember, so the deck will oilcan a bit.  I'm going to glass in some blocks (to the hull, thru the floor) and thru bolt the 2X2's to the crossmember.  This will take care of any compressive loads.

There sure was a galley fire, and the method for repairing came from many winter nights thinking, drinking, and bouncing lot of ideas, some stupid, off someone smarter than me:  my Dad. 

As far as the deck goes, I replaced with 3/8 marine ply.  Had to, because the liner has to go back in, and anything thicker or thinner would frig up the radius at the side deck and cabin sides.  Getting the old deck out was an exercise in patience - slowly going at it with some chisels, small prybar, long drill bits, and an air chisel (gently).   I glassed over one side of the new deck with polyester and chopped strand mat, and this is the "down" side.  I bonded the sections back up with West System, and high density filler (thanks Merrill, that really is good stuff!) with colloidal silica too.  Setting up all those sticks was really an excercise in patience and fighting gravity.  Next time, I think I'll drill out the rivets and lift the deck right off...........

There's a picture of the aft deck, up thru the hole in the transom, looking up and you can see blobs.  These are resin blobs, where the plywood was attached to the fiberglass - it's mostly a void.  That's what the forward decks pretty much looked like.  The techniques of the era....

The shelter is the catsass.  Keeps the snow out now, and none of the neighbors have complained yet...  Dad doesn't even charge me extra rent for taking up half his driveway.......

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Stefan

It looks like you had an alcohol stove... what happen... it also looks like it was too close to the bulk head... I'm only saying this because I'm thinking of doing the same thing... and it would be nice to know from your experience to maybe avoid a situation... thanks
jose

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Yeah it's an Origo 4000.  I wasnt the one that had the fire.  The previous owner had the fire off the west coast on her way to vancouver.  I don't know the particulars.  From what I've read, if you run those non press alcohol stoves for a long time (1.5+ hrs) at mid/high heat, then the fuel will spill over the cannister and catch on fire.  Seems to be what happened here.  I don't really know, nor can I explain this happenining, but I guess it's happened to some people.  I dont think I'll ever run that stove that hard or that long to find out.

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Yikes!  The fire thing with alcohol is a tad scary, as you can't really see the flame if the fluid gets loose.  A good lesson why to keep burner down lower while underway, or have to watch it...fire is fire, hey?!

I think I will have to light mine underway for long trips, but would watch it and hope to hell it was ok...mine is the Origo 3000 non-press. but is set very low into the opening, not against bulkhead, and there is fibreglass liner around, and lots of room around it, kind of like if you wanted you could build a giant icebox in the same spot - or install a big diesel stove!
When I don't use the stove, a large teak cover fits over the whole area and that is my "chart table"!

So, Stefan, what type of stove will you get?!
And thanks for sharing all your insights, very valuable!  We never know what's under or in our boats until we rip them apart!  I do like the open concept...makes it look like a mega yacht down below! ;-)  And thanks again for the many pics, they are now part of my Boat Pictures file on my computer!  And your dad sounds like the greatest!

“You get a boat for only one reason, because you want one.  If you’re worried about being practical, forget boats.”

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