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Starr Refit Blog #11 – Weeks 17-20Weeks of January 17-February 9 – The Pace is Picking Up.
February 9, 2014  We just received the new ABT/TRAC Get-Home Drive unit.
(Note: A Get-Home Drive also known as an Auxiliary Prop Drive, is a hydraulically d…

Starr Refit Blog #12 – Weeks 17-20
Weeks of January 17-February 9 – The Pace is Picking Up.

February 9, 2014
 
We just received the new ABT/TRAC Get-Home Drive unit.

(Note: A Get-Home Drive also known as an Auxiliary Prop Drive, is a hydraulically driven, clutched gear box that is mounted in a vessel’s main drive line and provides power to turn the vessels propeller by means of auxiliary engine horsepower when the main propulsion system is shut down or disabled. It also allows for driving the vessel at low speeds, where it is undesirable to operate a large main engine, at or near idle speed for extended periods of time.)

 Will it fit? We knew it would be close.

Dave Wright, the ABT/TRAC service manager, thought it should fit and agreed that if it didn’t they would take it back! http://www.thrusters.com/products/pdf/get%20home%20drive%20page%201.pdf

The Get-Home Drive ready for the “fit test”

 Dave and I pulled the shaft and dropped it in and it fits!

It Fits!

 I asked Doug Janes of Janes Marine , my “Main Man” when it comes to my Naiad Stabilizers, to take a look at what we were doing with our stabilizers, and also to make any recommendations that he might have on installing the ABT Get-Home Drive.

My mentor, Doug Janes

Doug has been one of my mentors, and the guy is not only a super person but he is also a mechanical genius! He has always been ready to share with me many of his hard earned tricks. For example: Doug has devised a way to drop and replace a 24 sq. ft. stabilizer fin by himself, without the use of a forklift. He uses a combination of gadgets he carries in a golf bag, so he can jump on a plane and have his 600 ft/lb torque wrench and his pullers at hand.

Doug Janes at the Starboard stabilizer shaft

Doug with his bag of stabilizer tricks, which also includes his 10-ton power pack.

The Traveling Bag of Tricks

Northern Lights Diesel headquarters is within walking distance down from Salmon Bay Marine Center (SBMC). Another highly respected engine expert and teacher, Bob Senter, came to Starr to offer advice and support. Bob is well known in the powerboat cruising world, as a foremost expert in his field of Diesel Engines (he knows them all).

Bob Senter, advising me on my generator exhaust modifications.

We had Philip Strnard, from Always Perfect recover the new wheelhouse consol, and it looks great. Philip is doing all of the new wheelhouse (consol and settee) and the flybridge cushions as well.  Philip had just finished doing a Delta 165 ft and his work is great.
http://www.alwaysperfect.net/Always_Perfect/Welcome.html

Phillip Strnard of Always Perfect

The new Monitors are in place,and Sharry gives it the thumbs up.

Inside, we are replacing all of the bathroom vanity tops. Here, Randy Madison is ripping out the old countertops and preparing for the new.

Randy Madison ripping out the vanity top

We are replacing all of the wallpaper. Fourteen years and around 70,000nm of running, with much of it in hot humid climates, has taken its toll. Much of the wallpaper was peeling off of the walls.

Dave Schmidt and Nery Coronado, stripping the wallpaper

Outside, our All Points Marine (APM) crew are finishing applying the primer coat. It’s not quite as dusty, but we still have to do the fine 320 grit sanding before the topcoat of AwlGrip can go on.

The Aft deck soffit all primed.

Top deck primed and almost ready for topcoat

Randy and “Santa” Howard Conine from APM

Port side soffit looks good!

 
Last week Steve D’Antonio and I spent 2 1/2 days Interviewing and documenting the Ballard Maritime Service Industry for a magazine article that Steve is working on.

http://www.stevedmarineconsulting.com

We limited ourselves to just a one mile radius from SBMC, and were blown away with what we learned! I have been doing business with most of these maritime service providers for much of my life, but I’ve never taken the time to learn about the nitty-gritty of the history and scope of business for these companies. I can tell you that if I had a boat anywhere within 2000 nm of Seattle, and I wanted the very best in marine repair and refit, I would do exactly what our Alaska Commercial Fishing Fleet have been doing for the past 100 years…and that is head to Ballard!

Steve D’Antonio interviewing Tor Tollessen, President of Lunde Marine Electronics.

After we made our whirlwind tour of the Ballard Ship Canal Maritime neighborhood we had a chance to celebrate.

Steve D’Antonio, Sharry and I at  The Walrus and the Carpenter, another fine Marine Service Provider in Ballard

 
You will be able to read Steve’s take on this in the near future; I will let you know when his article has been published.

I will also write some short blog entries about the Ballard Ship Canal Maritime Service Companies that we interviewed.

Don Stabbert

Starr Refit Blog #11 – Weeks 13-16 Weeks of December 20-January 10 – We are starting to see Results . . . 
 
We are starting to see the results of hundreds of hours of backbreaking work. The fairing is mostly completed. Last weekend APM (All Point…

Starr Refit Blog #11 – Weeks 13-16 Weeks of December 20-January 10 – We are starting to see Results . . . 
 
We are starting to see the results of hundreds of hours of backbreaking work. The fairing is mostly completed. Last weekend APM (All Point…

Starr Refit Blog #11 – Weeks 13-16 
Weeks of December 20-January 10 – We are starting to see Results . . . 

We are starting to see the results of hundreds of hours of backbreaking work. The fairing is mostly completed. Last weekend APM (All Points Marine) sprayed on the epoxy high-build primer; we are using AwlGrip’s Ultra Build.
http://www.awlgrip.com/products/primers/ultra-build-epoxy-primer.aspx

This high-build primer goes on thick (28mil), and then will be sanded down for the finished surface.

High-Build Primer ready to sand to as “smooth as silk”

Fred Jahaske, one hard working guy who is happy to be moving onto the painting stage

I stewed over what bottom paint to use, and finally decided to use AkzoNobel’s International Commercial Paint, rather than their Yacht Paint (which they sell under the name of Interlux). We used the international Interspeed bottom paint when we last did the bottom, two years ago in Honolulu and that worked OK.

Our International Paint Rep suggested we get advice regarding the particulars in applying International’s commercial bottom paint from Taylor Pennock. Taylor has applied this bottom paint on hundreds of fish boats, and knows what to do and what not to do. It is great to have experts like Taylor who freely share their knowledge.

 Dana consulting with Pacific Fishermen’s (Pac Fish) Dock Master and Paint expert Taylor Pennock

 We sprayed the barrier coat using 15 gallons of Intershield 300-Bronze at a thickness of 8-10 mil wet, which dries to about 5-6mil dry. We followed that with 15 gallons of Intershield-Aluminum. (I mil is equal to 0.0254mm, or 0.001 inch.)

Wet Film Thickness Gauge
 

Second layer of epoxy barrier coat Aluminum.
http://www.international-pc.com/PDS/2407-P-eng-A4.pdf

Immediately after applying the Intershield 300-Aluminum, while the epoxy was still thumbprint tacky, we applied 15 gallons of Interspeed 640-Red at 10-12 mil., followed the next day by 15 gallons of Interspeed 642-Black, again at 10-12 mil wet thickness. The dry thickness of each coat is about 8 mil. We will wait a few days for the paint solvents to vent off, and then we will apply the final 15 gallons of Interspeed 641-Blue.

Dana is very, very happy that he is mostly done with the dusty grinding and is finally applying paint.

The first coat of Interspeed BRA 640 red

The second coat of Interspeed BRA 642 Black

So there you have it: Bronze followed by Aluminum for the barrier coat , followed by antifouling in Black and Red, and finally the top coat will be Blue.
http://www.international-marine.com/products/info/interspeed-640.aspx

Inside in the Wheelhouse Tom Moore is installing box after box of new electronic gear. Our radar and navigation systems are all “Black Box” but we are using off the shelf NEC monitors, the brains are still big boxes that are taking a lot of space under the dash.

In the Engine Room, Dave Schmidt and I opened the port fuel tank and we were assuming that we would be opening all four fuel tanks and would have to climb into them to clean them. I had last opened and cleaned the tanks in 2009, and at that time they were like a dirty bathtub that a muddy football player bathed in for a year without ever cleaning up after himself.

Starr’s fuel tank in 2009

 What we found this week was a very clean tank where a wipe-down produced nothing more than a dirty hand towel.

Port tank access hatch

The port tank is 17 feet long

 Dave climbing out of a very clean tank

Up topside Sharry is going over the new wallpaper selections with Richard Liepelt.

Sharry and Richard. “Humm…I think this might work!”

We have retained Richard to help us with our finishes. Richard is VP of Operations at Citadel Marine Center in Tacoma; Kevin Jaffe, owner of Marama, a Delta 124 Full Displacement Expedition Trideck, referred Richard to us.   SBMC was Marama’s Homeport during the winter of last year.
http://www.deltamarine.com/PR/Megayachts%20Marama.pdf

Marama has the finest paint job that I have ever seen on a yacht, and Richard Liepelt was Kevin’s Project and Paint Manager on his last three boats, including Marama.   Diamond Painting painted Marama at Delta Marine. We wanted to have our work done at Delta by Diamond, and we were on their schedule to paint in 2015, but we decided that the paint was deteriorating rapidly in the tropical sun of Hawaii and we needed to do it sooner, rather than later. Delta and Diamond were both booked out over a year on their paint commitments, so we figured out how to get it done NOW. We told Richard that we wanted paint quality very close to what they achieved on Marama, but we didn’t want to wait another year.   Richard said he had just the guy to produce the quality that we are after, and introduced us to Dana Lebo and his partner Bill Kennedy at All Points Marine.

Richard Liepelt, Dana and me

 
Back in the Engine Room, I’m getting hydraulic layout advice from Paul Hoffman, owner of Pacific Marine Hydraulics.

Paul Hoffman in Starr’s ER

I’ve mentioned Paul before and I’m going to again say that Paul is probably the best hydraulic stainless tube guy in the Pacific Northwest!

Paul Hoffman on a Combination Seiner next to his work

 Paul commented on our hoses being over 5-years old. On some of the boats Paul works on, like Starbound, the owners have their hydraulic hoses replaced every 5 years.

Starbound, a 240′ Catcher-Processor owned by Aleutian Spray Fisheries.
Paul does all of Starbound’s hyraulic work

 The dates on our hoses read that they were manufactured in the first quarter of 2008.

Our hydraulic hoses manufacture date says 1st quarter 2008 (1Q08)

Speaking of when things were manufactured:

Where and when was our Cummins NTA 855 main engine built?  
The label on the engine says the engine was manufactured in 1996.

Cummins Mfg Label in Engine frame

Dave was under the engine this Friday and looked up to the bottom of the Cummins oil pan and here is what he found.

Stamped on the bottom of the oil pan of the engine: Made In Japan 1936

It’s a conundrum!!!!  
There has to be an interesting story about this; I wonder how to find out what it means?
Does anyone have any ideas?

 AND THE WORK GOES ON:

This week we will be installing the wheelhouse cowling, sealing up the fuel tanks, and prepping the exterior hull for it’s primer coat of paint.

DON

Starr Refit Blog #10 – Weeks 10-12
Weeks of Nov. 25 to Dec. 13 – It’s Snowing Inside the Boat Shed at PacFish

 We are nearing the end of the itchy fiberglass sanding work. Since my last report we have removed the transom and top deck forms. Sharry calls me “Frosty the Snowman” when I come home from work, and it’s not because of the recent cold weather but because I am covered with fiberglass dust.

Our work on Starr is Itchy and Noisy!  Here is a short video looking down the port side deck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvVNda-QZg

And another where Pablo is die-grinding on the top deck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agF7i8P30cw

The transom with the foam removed

The top deck with the form removed

By this past weekend Dana and his guys  had finished one full week of grinding away 16 years of accumulated bottom paint. They masked the bottom from the boot stripe down, and ground off the bottom using 8″ grinders with 40 grit paper. It was a very messy job. 

The bottom is masked off

A clean bottom ready for barrier coat touch up and new bottom paint

Here is what they looked like all week long

The Men in Blue, Dana and his guys

While Dana and his crew were glassing and grinding the connections between the existing and the new sections, we (Randy, Dave, Tom, Nick, Brandy and I) were inside working on the mechanical and electrical systems.

 The grey water tank top manifold was rotten, so Nick Parks is building a new one and replacing the PVC piping with Mepla. Mepla, is a triple layer of pipe which consists of an inner layer of cross-linked polyethylene, a middle layer of welded aluminium, and a protective outer layer of HDPE.
http://www.international.geberit.com/

The rotten grey water tank top

 
Nick Park installing the Mepla piping

Brandy and Dave spent a week in the shop polishing the stainless and getting parts ready to send to either be
re-chromed or power coated.

Brandy with the polisher

Brandy back on board Starr looking for tools

 
Back outside we (Dana, Pablo, Chris, along with Randy and I) were attaching the pre-laminated transom deck. The top was loaded down with 12×12’s to compress the pro-set adhesive connection.

The transom loaded with 12×12 timbers for compression

 
The top deck is being faired out using Awl Grip’s Awl Fair

Sophan with fairing compound

Screeding the fairing compound

Dana with jig for shaping the gutters

 
Over at SBMC, Aaron McCrum, S3 Maritime’s fabrication specialist, was building Starr’s new wheelhouse console out of aluminum.

The new wheelhouse cowling

 Aaron McCrum putting finishing touches on the console.

 Now that the transom deck is in place, we are getting ready to make the patterns for the new teak decking. I did get a bid from a well-known national teak decking company that does a lot of work for our Northwest boat builders. Paul Zimmer, who is the partner at S3 Maritime, heard that I was about to let the bid, and Paul suggested that I talk to Adam Karpenske, a young and talented local shipwright. I wasn’t aware of Adam working in our neighborhood, but given the choice, I prefer to give my business to our local craftsmen.

Adam Karpenske
http://karpenskemarine.com

While I’m talking about talent, I’m continuously amazed at the talent that exists here in Ballard, “the center of the maritime universe”:

 A few days ago I went looking for Chuck Albertson, who was just finishing managing a “new build” 58ft x27ft combination fishing boat which can carry over 200 tons of fish. Northern Marine had just launched the boat, and Chuck was overseeing the final touches here in Ballard. Chuck said the boat was tied up next door to Starr at Ballard Oil. I went next door to find it, and saw a Seine boat that from a quick glance looked new, and I scrambled over the rail.

The Arctic Fox from Petersburg, AK

What caught my eye first was the beautiful stainless hydraulic piping. Out of the engine room walked Paul Hoffman, the hands-on owner of Pacific Marine Hydraulics. I also noticed that the boat I’m on isn’t the one Chuck was managing. The worn wood-clad decks show that this boat has been hard at work.   Paul told me about this boat, and it is one highly productive fishing machine.   Paul installed the hydraulics on the Arctic Fox several years earlier. Daniel Crome, the 30-something-year-old Skipper/Owner is from Petersburg, Alaska and works 5 different fisheries. The single screw boat runs 11 months of the year, fishing King Crab, Salmon, Dungeness Crab, Heering and Sardines, and ranges from Alaska to Northern Oregon.

 Paul Hoffman installed this hydraulic system many thousand’s of miles ago

 These hard working machines are all single screw and can’t afford any down time.
One of many details that Paul was pleased with on this boat included the through-bulkhead JIC unions that are CNC cut and fabricated at JK Fabrication. These unions allow the 3000psi hi pressure oil to connect leak free thru the bulkheads and deck plates.  http://www.jkfabrication.com

 Paul had the hydraulic valves Hot Spray Zinced, and then epoxy painted. They look like new after years of continuous duty. What he didn’t mention, but is clear to me is that his stainless tubing workmanship is “pure art”! When Paul sends his work to sea it keeps working!

 I finally caught up with Chuck. He had moved the Optimus, the new Northern Marine Combination Seiner/Crabber/Everything, over to the West Wall at Fisherman’s Terminal.

The Optimus from Sitka, AK

 The hydraulic system on Optimus was built right next door by Puget Sound Hydraulics.
http://www.pugetsoundhydraulics.com
Take a look at the Stainless hydraulic piping on Optimus

Optimus hydraulics

 
 Meanwhile back in Starr’s engine room, I’m “re-arranging the furniture”.   I’m moving things around:   like changing the orientation of the sea chest, moving the diesel furnace from the port over to the starboard side, replacing the hydraulic manifold with a more compact one made of stainless, and relocating the pumps for the A/C system for easier servicing.  I’ll talk about that some other time.

Next week we will be moving on to more fairing, and our goal is to have the fairing completed by January 1 and  start working on priming the hull and house.

It feels good to be putting this awful, noisy,  messy, nasty, dirty work behind us.  

Don

Starr Refit Blog #10 – Weeks 10-12Weeks of Nov. 25 to Dec. 13 – It’s Snowing Inside the Boat Shed at PacFish
 We are nearing the end of the itchy fiberglass sanding work. Since my last report we have removed the transom and top deck forms. Sharry …

Starr Refit Blog #10 – Weeks 10-12
Weeks of Nov. 25 to Dec. 13 – It’s Snowing Inside the Boat Shed at PacFish

 We are nearing the end of the itchy fiberglass sanding work. Since my last report we have removed the transom and top deck forms. Sharry calls me “Frosty the Snowman” when I come home from work, and it’s not because of the recent cold weather but because I am covered with fiberglass dust.

Our work on Starr is Itchy and Noisy!  Here is a short video looking down the port side deck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvVNda-QZg

And another where Pablo is die-grinding on the top deck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agF7i8P30cw

The transom with the foam removed

The top deck with the form removed

By this past weekend Dana and his guys  had finished one full week of grinding away 16 years of accumulated bottom paint. They masked the bottom from the boot stripe down, and ground off the bottom using 8″ grinders with 40 grit paper. It was a very messy job. 

The bottom is masked off

A clean bottom ready for barrier coat touch up and new bottom paint

Here is what they looked like all week long

The Men in Blue, Dana and his guys

While Dana and his crew were glassing and grinding the connections between the existing and the new sections, we (Randy, Dave, Tom, Nick, Brandy and I) were inside working on the mechanical and electrical systems.

 The grey water tank top manifold was rotten, so Nick Parks is building a new one and replacing the PVC piping with Mepla. Mepla, is a triple layer of pipe which consists of an inner layer of cross-linked polyethylene, a middle layer of welded aluminium, and a protective outer layer of HDPE.
http://www.international.geberit.com/

The rotten grey water tank top

 
Nick Park installing the Mepla piping

Brandy and Dave spent a week in the shop polishing the stainless and getting parts ready to send to either be
re-chromed or power coated.

Brandy with the polisher

Brandy back on board Starr looking for tools

 
Back outside we (Dana, Pablo, Chris, along with Randy and I) were attaching the pre-laminated transom deck. The top was loaded down with 12×12’s to compress the pro-set adhesive connection.

The transom loaded with 12×12 timbers for compression

 
The top deck is being faired out using Awl Grip’s Awl Fair

Sophan with fairing compound

Screeding the fairing compound

Dana with jig for shaping the gutters

 
Over at SBMC, Aaron McCrum, S3 Maritime’s fabrication specialist, was building Starr’s new wheelhouse console out of aluminum.

The new wheelhouse cowling

 Aaron McCrum putting finishing touches on the console.

 Now that the transom deck is in place, we are getting ready to make the patterns for the new teak decking. I did get a bid from a well-known national teak decking company that does a lot of work for our Northwest boat builders. Paul Zimmer, who is the partner at S3 Maritime, heard that I was about to let the bid, and Paul suggested that I talk to Adam Karpenske, a young and talented local shipwright. I wasn’t aware of Adam working in our neighborhood, but given the choice, I prefer to give my business to our local craftsmen.

Adam Karpenske
http://karpenskemarine.com

While I’m talking about talent, I’m continuously amazed at the talent that exists here in Ballard, “the center of the maritime universe”:

 A few days ago I went looking for Chuck Albertson, who was just finishing managing a “new build” 58ft x27ft combination fishing boat which can carry over 200 tons of fish. Northern Marine had just launched the boat, and Chuck was overseeing the final touches here in Ballard. Chuck said the boat was tied up next door to Starr at Ballard Oil. I went next door to find it, and saw a Seine boat that from a quick glance looked new, and I scrambled over the rail.

The Arctic Fox from Petersburg, AK

What caught my eye first was the beautiful stainless hydraulic piping. Out of the engine room walked Paul Hoffman, the hands-on owner of Pacific Marine Hydraulics. I also noticed that the boat I’m on isn’t the one Chuck was managing. The worn wood-clad decks show that this boat has been hard at work.   Paul told me about this boat, and it is one highly productive fishing machine.   Paul installed the hydraulics on the Arctic Fox several years earlier. Daniel Crome, the 30-something-year-old Skipper/Owner is from Petersburg, Alaska and works 5 different fisheries. The single screw boat runs 11 months of the year, fishing King Crab, Salmon, Dungeness Crab, Heering and Sardines, and ranges from Alaska to Northern Oregon.

 Paul Hoffman installed this hydraulic system many thousand’s of miles ago

 These hard working machines are all single screw and can’t afford any down time.
One of many details that Paul was pleased with on this boat included the through-bulkhead JIC unions that are CNC cut and fabricated at JK Fabrication. These unions allow the 3000psi hi pressure oil to connect leak free thru the bulkheads and deck plates.  http://www.jkfabrication.com

 Paul had the hydraulic valves Hot Spray Zinced, and then epoxy painted. They look like new after years of continuous duty. What he didn’t mention, but is clear to me is that his stainless tubing workmanship is “pure art”! When Paul sends his work to sea it keeps working!

 I finally caught up with Chuck. He had moved the Optimus, the new Northern Marine Combination Seiner/Crabber/Everything, over to the West Wall at Fisherman’s Terminal.

The Optimus from Sitka, AK

 The hydraulic system on Optimus was built right next door by Puget Sound Hydraulics.
http://www.pugetsoundhydraulics.com
Take a look at the Stainless hydraulic piping on Optimus

Optimus hydraulics

 
 Meanwhile back in Starr’s engine room, I’m “re-arranging the furniture”.   I’m moving things around:   like changing the orientation of the sea chest, moving the diesel furnace from the port over to the starboard side, replacing the hydraulic manifold with a more compact one made of stainless, and relocating the pumps for the A/C system for easier servicing.  I’ll talk about that some other time.

Next week we will be moving on to more fairing, and our goal is to have the fairing completed by January 1 and  start working on priming the hull and house.

It feels good to be putting this awful, noisy,  messy, nasty, dirty work behind us.  

Don

Starr Refit Blog #10 – Weeks 10-12Weeks of Nov. 25 to Dec. 13 – It’s Snowing Inside the Boat Shed
 We are nearing the end of the itchy fiberglass sanding work. Since my last report we have removed the transom and top deck forms. Sharry calls me

Starr Refit Blog #8 – Week 8

Week of November 11-15 – I have the “Boat Yard Blues”

 
We are at a stage where things are moving more slowly. Right now everything is all torn up, and
the interior and exterior of Starr are a real mess.  It’s just the way it goes and I have the Boatyard Blues”.
I am really looking forward to the point when we will have the exterior ready for painting.
 

Dana Lebo and his crew worked on adding the three layers of coring to the top deck,
and prepared the transom for glassing.

Beveling the edge of core to mate with the next section

Pablo bedding the core at the junction of old top deck and the new section

Meanwhile I’m working inside Starr, changing out all of the wheelhouse electronics.
I’m a Furuno proponent. I want to use the new Furuno TZT system, but was disappointed
to learn that the TZT wouldn’t run on two or three completely separate screens.
That meant that if we wanted to run the Plotter, the Radar, and the Sounder all at the same time,
we would either have to have all systems sharing one screen or else buy two or three
complete TZT systems.
Fortunately, I was able to talk to Aaron Smith, Senior Technical Associate at S3 Maritime.
Aaron has a solution that allows the TZT to run two,
or even three screens, each screen showing a different function: one screen with the Plotter,
one with the 6kw Radar, and one with the new Chirp Sounder. 

The link is too long to fit in this blog, so for more information search for: 
NavNet TZtouch MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY BLACK BOX
TZTBB

Aaron doing the electronics layout

Aaron’s quick “back of the napkin” design sketch

What is really interesting is that the Furuno experts weren’t aware of this solution; it pays to do business with the Best!
If any of you boat guys need technical advice on your electronics, I would highly recommend talking to Aaron.
You can reach him by calling S3 Maritime at 206-420-4932 or, Aaron can be contacted directly at 206 484 7914.

Aaron says, “It’s all in how you integrate it!”

Meanwhile inside Starr, Randy, Dave and I are replacing all of the Aqua Air heat and air conditioning
system with Northern Light’s Technicold System.

The salon cabinet prior to disassembly

The cabinet ready for new air-handler

The old air-handlers were corroded from the salt air

We have replaced all six air-handlers. In a couple of rooms I have completely relocated the units
to create easy access to make maintenance easier.

Randy re-installing a unit

The new Technicold air-handler
After Randy puts the Salon cabinet back together it looks as good as new.

The pilot house:  what a mess!

The wheelhouse dashboard has been removed for rebuilding

The dash is ready to go to Randy’s shop to be rebuilt
The new dash will have a backing, so that all of the flat screens will be flush with the face panel. 

AND THE WORK GOES ON!

Don