Maintenance

Maintenance

The yacht superstructure, rig, engine and equipment has been maintained to manufacturers specs mainly by professional contractors. Major items are listed below

Oct 1999	Installed aft s/s gantry to support radome, solar panels, GPS and TV aerials	CB Marine /Regis/Solarex
July 2000	Hull, rudder and keel slurry cleaned to remove antifoul paint, faired with epoxy and coated with Coppercoat	B A Peters
Feb 2007	Saildrive Diaphragm replaced, saildrive service incl replacement gears, repainting and antifoul of saildrive casing	Peters Opal
Aug 2007	Upgraded course computer to S3 specification	Raytheon
Sept 2008	Keel bolts replaced and keel re bedded. Keel bolts inspected (3 pulled) in 2019 – no work required	BDA
Oct 2008	Replaced all standing rigging	Holman Rigging
Jan 2012	New mainsail and cross cut furling genoa with foam luff, both with stitching upgrade	Arun sails
Jan 2012	Installed new holding tank, macerator pump, valves and related pipework, electric marine toilet to forward heads	Tek Tanks
Feb 2012	Replaced saildrive diaphragm and serviced saildrive, new final drive Replaced leaking oil sump and timing gear case	Motortech Engineering
June 2016	Replaced anchor chain with 50 metres DIN 766 8mm Maggi Cartene Aqua 7 calibrated chain and swivel anchor connector	Jimmy Green Marine
June 2016	Soda blasted hull and keel to remove thin layer coppercoat. Recoated with coppercoat after hull survey confirmed hull defect free. Click here for survey.	Symblast / Aquarius
Sept 2016	Installed new Volvo Penta D2-40 engine coupled to 130S saildrive, upgraded fuel pre filter	Golden Arrow
Nov 2016	Installed new Sleipner SE80 bow thruster, battery, cockpit mounted and remote controls	Osmotech
Dec 2018	New sprayhood	Tecsew
Sept 2018	Harken furler for new One Sails cruising chute	Holman Rigging
June 2019	Replaced both fresh water tanks	TekTanks
Dec 2020	Standing rigging and halyards replaced	Holman Rigging
Aug 2022	Patched areas of coppercoat, partcularly keel which was faired with epoxy prior to coppercoat	Aquarius Coatings
Aug 2023	Saildrive service and new diaphragm, new 17 x12 propeller	Ocean Marine