Hello everybody!
A very big jump forward! About the complete repair of my Swedish Koster
Am I just a fool? Is it courage? or maybe both?
Or maybe I am more a builder than a sailor?
Used the boat, after I bought it in August 2010, only 3 day's for sailing!
It started with the engine, which had to be taken apart completely last year!
Yes, I worked with my hands before, but not on boats, therefore, my eyes were (last year) not trained enough to spot potential problems. I should have hired an expert to check out the boat for me? Yes right. I did on a previous occasion, but was far from impressed with that person.
Anyway, I did bite the bullet in spite of the lack of knowledge and training, but I guess, when knowing this, it will be a matter trying to find the right people who can help and advice, which I think, I did.
Phil (Dr Spoke) from the wooden boat forum was a great help and a boat builder from my own country the Netherlands was also great in supporting me through this hole journey which is still not finished, but at least we moved on a lot.
I documented everything with lots of images, too many to post directly here on the forum, therefore, you can find it all in this gallery via this link:
and I hope you all enjoy following the process of this repair.
Here is the link to the image gallery, you find the text describing what we do at the bottom of each page, below the images.
http://dev.colourcertainty.co.uk/01I...Koster-repair/
Udo
(Sweden)
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