This Probably needs a Total Re-built
It has not been used for ages, except for storing sails. There is no running water and all sea cocks are totally rotten. And disconnected.
Starting to work on some issues
October 29, 2025: Preparations for the regatta ongoing. I only want to take the rubbish off the boat, but when touching the hoses of the bathroom sink, the wastewater connection to the through hull fitting breaks off. A few other parts also break. Now I need to go hardware shopping to get a plug before the race.
Update October 30: After the first race of the All Souls Regatta there was quite a bit of water in the bilge. We were heeling a lot and according to Joel the water most likely entered in the head through the through hull openings of the toilet, which are disconnected. Some of them are clogged with wood pegs.
This needs sorting out, ideally in the dry dock, because I am worried the old plastic will just crack like that of the bathroom sink. Would not be good for the fittings below the waterline. In the meantime maybe we can clog the openings from the outside.
Frustration with local help. I tell the helper to remove the faucet and sink. He works on it for a while, but the paper knife is too short to reach all the areas that are filled with silicone. He uses a hammer as leaver and bends everything but with no success regarding removing the sing. Next time. Now the sink is all bent. So it needs to come out and I need to buy a new one.
October 28: Started to take the electrical toilet controls out.
Restauration
May 2026
Because I don’t trust the quality of materials from local hardware stores, and the genuine marine equipment suppliers have astronomical prices, I ordered the new components such as through-hull fittings, sea cocks, etc., from SVB in Germany and had the parts brought to the Philippines by visitors.
But the first thing was to to get all the old stuff out. Which sounds easier than done. Because people tend to overdo things. The through-hull fittings, for example, were laminated into the hull walls to an extend that it took me three half days and running to shops for different tools to only take the toilet outlet fittings out. By May 10, finally all old crap was removed.
Sensors for navigation equipment
The sensors for depth, speed, and water temperature are located in the head underneath the basin that collects shower water. The instruments were obsolete with Seatalk 1 and displays that can hardly be read anymore. So I decided to go with the latest Raymarine equipment for the basic functions. While one of two depth gauge sensors still works, There are some navigation equipment kits that include sensors.
It took some work with hammer and chisel to remove some laminate that was added after mounting the sensors to loosen them so that they could be taken out with a rubber hammer.
Cleaning up the Head
According to rumors I heard, the boat had a termite attack, somewhere in the bow. It was fixed by an “expert”. I assume it was at the saloon bulkhead, it is heavily repaired and there are brown deposits that look like the stuff termites make their nest from. The bulkhead seems to be OK at the head side, but the wood is rotten at the saloon side. So the first step is the clean up and re-built the bulkhead.
All the different holes from the electric toilet control need to be filled and at the end the head needs some new paint.
Restoring the bulkhead: See the corresponding section on the Salon page.
A new Wash Basin
A new (manual) Toilet
There was a broken retrofitted electric toilet in the boat, with two control panels in the port wall and several cables and hoses. Except for Costa Rica, all boats I have been on had toilets with manual pumps. There is nothing wrong with those. They are easier to maintain, and don’t need to be collected to the electric system. So I asked the Costa Rica team to include a new manual toilet in one of their orders of parts.