Update: on Restoration

Ian Franklin comes back with an update:

• The obvious interior repairs have been done.
• Quite a bit of refastening has been done.
• The exterior below the waterline has been totally sanded off to expose the suspect areas.
• The exterior above the waterline has had the high spots sanded off and is now being prepped for paint.
• The mast step has been removed and has exposed the front keel bolt that is being addressed now.
• An injector tube has been split and this will be a start to finding the sole course of the engine problem.
• The mast has been stripped and scraped and partly sanded and some new Oregon has been purchased to replace the soft spots.
  
• A start has been made on the bow sprit, sanding, scraping.
• We have dropped the keel and she needs some serious attention.
• The aft keel bolt is broken so nothing holding up the back end!
• She would have been leaking aft and forward.
• It is a terrible shape in its forward entry, it must really hamper the boats performance.
• You need a new keel cast, I have been talking to Bruce about it and he is going to do a bit of home work
• On a good note it appears all the timber down there is real good.