It’s been a little while since I last updated on our progress.The days are getting longer. And you, gentle reader, are possibly wondering what we have been up to.
So let me tell you. The cabin side process is crawling along. The sides have been sanded and coated with three coats of epoxy. They look great. Upon the go ahead from my attendant shipwright we’ll sand them smooth and prime and paint them. With that done we can finally install the portlights throughout and be one step closer to removing the tarp that shrouds Amatheia’s noble form.
David, in charge of this phase of the project, says that he’ll soon finish the stringers for the underside of the side decks. Then we’ll be able to cut and install the plywood that will cover the side deck underside. I can’t wait.
Jon went to work on the lockers, cleaning, priming and painting. They are now wonderfully white, clean and sparkly, and that makes me happy just looking at them. We used an oil based paint for these.
We’ve started on the galley. We peeled off the countertop laminate, filled the large holes cut in the counter by the previous owner, removed the icebox tops and will be ready to install new laminate, sink and seawater hand pump as soon as I scrape together the funds to purchase them. We’ll build new icebox lids or repair the old ones, haven’t quite decided yet. I’ve seen some DE 32’s with a cutting board lid for the forward icebox, that sounds like a good idea to me.
We cleaned the icebox interiors with good old acetone, they cleaned up well.
And that’s where we are.
For more adventures with Amatheia visit http://www.amatheia.net
A word to the wise: DE45 “School’s Out” is a burned out hulk because her owner was cleaning in the bilge with acetone, and accidentally broke the lite bulb in his trouble light.
Also, I re-insulated my refrigerator on Eolian – I found that the factory insulation (foam-in-place urethane) was saturated with water. It is now 4″ of the blue closed-cell polystyrene. You’re this far into the ice boxes – it wouldn’t be much more to redo the insulation completely.
Bob
s/v Eolian
DE45 #11
Seattle
Do we know what hull number School’s Out is? I don’t seem to have her in the hull registry by that name.
Sorry – I do not. But I do have pictures of her after the fire. They are sobering.
In fact, I have pictures of more than half of the DE45s that were made. I wish I could get the rest of them!
bob
s/v Eolian
DE45 #11
Seattle
Off topic Bob I have a DE 45 stock boat 4-236 perkins do you know prop rotation and gear box ratio on your DE also chek shaft 1.250 with 16:1 taper. I,m Hawaii boats Tx’s want to order autoprop from Aust. Anyone had one of these. Props S/S, feathering can be adjusted for pitch underwater. Aloha Gary
ps bought DE 45 Evergreen from the Houston’s was Ike damaged mostly minor
Gary –
Eolian’s prop is a 20×14, RH rotation. The gearbox is a Borg Warner Velvet Drive, 1.9:1 reduction. Yes, the shaft is 1.25″. I’ve never had the prop off, so I can’t tell you the taper.
bob