Dear Readers,

a busy weekend behind me and Cati. From Friday morning until Monday afternoon, we have in Hellevoetsluis (an der Haringvliet in Holland) gewerkelt of the new Maverick.

But first of all something to anticipate the new boat – I had indeed not yet described in detail …

The “Maverick too” ist eine Contest 33. Built according to ad sales 1974 – but with the hull number 13 it should be a little older. I just asked at the shipyard and look forward, What the records do not have to. From the measurements around 10 Meters long, 3,15m wide with a draft of 1,60 m. Motorized she is still with the first motor, a Volvo Penta MD-2B. Like the little time at the Maverick.

As seen in the pictures is, The boat was not over the past years used. Therefore, it is probably still get some work for us, We want to transfer them into the Baltic Sea in April. Above all, it was first necessary, to clear out the boat and cleaned from the ground up. The job is the same voluntarily reported Cati. I wanted to make it at the same time, The old lady technically work up.

Last Friday afternoon we went to so in Hellevoetsluis and immediately began the work. Of these, the images tell. Have fun with it 🙂

John

On the evening of arrival or quickly a large purchase in the supermarket: Bottles of cleaning stuff way.

But in between: The first meal on board. Lack of a hot tin dish sausage and French bread. And the knowledge: What an insanely great ship! 🙂

In the morning: Fog. Humidity in the boat 80%.

The bridge is icy and slippery insane.

First we went to the decluttering.

Incredible, what all comes to light. One of Reed's Almanac 1987. As the boat must have been last on the North Sea.

Boat equipment catalog from 1978

Ketchup: Expired in 2001. Record? No. The refrigerator was beer, that was the millennium turned bad.

Enthusiasm. But shortly after the comment came from Cati: “Nevertheless: The boat is ready to make it almost as good, like to be on the road later.”

My Site: The on-board electrics.

The next day we went on deck. In order to scrub under the cockpit seats, I disassembled it easy.

Surprise: A wetland.

Everything from.

After another day of hard work in the evening by the light of the kerosene lamp and a DVD on the laptop in the Salonkoje. The feeling: What a huge boat, in contrast to the small Maverick then. And what a luxury! Inside, the heater heats up to 22 Grad, outside temperature drops to 2 Degrees below zero.

In the morning there is snow on the towel in the cockpit.

After three days I'm the craft engine still does not come on the ropes, why he always, if I want to start, a short circuit fabricated. With my personal “technical drawings” I try to back the sense of some very obscure cabling to come.

Around noon, I think headlong plunged in the engine room of the offender: The start relay. Even down to the contacts you could see some rust. You screwed it down …

… is clear, that there is not expected to function more. The replacement part was searching the internet, that an exchange model as 250 Euro costs. Sip. As I look further I am happy about the price. I find out, namely, the things that were used in the Goggomobil. Among collectors, there are deals between 1.000 and 1.700 Euro for an original part.

The heater I have also found. Whether the works are?

Construction site. Once it gets warmer, in perhaps 3 Weeks, It is further.

Before that, I still measure all the lines and I can start looking for a replacement.

A picture from the cockpit after the cleaning action. The rest of the deck, we have not yet done. Next time. I will report here.