S/V Encantado - 2024 Refit

[Jordan]

Whew! It's been a hot minute, and I think I owe you all an update. It's been 4 years, and we haven't stopped floating. Up and down the East coast of Florida, and a full year in the Bahamas (with a quick flight for a visa extension).

We're now in Indiantown Marina, hauled out, with work progressing. We broke a chainplate during an accidental jibe (rig stayed up), sheared off the bolts between the propshaft and the v-drive, with a ridiculous fix to get us limping, adding starlink showed how inadequate my solar was (and how limiting my dodger and bimini are for adding more). So a new hardtop bimini and dodger to host more solar, davits to give us back our deck space, and an arch for even more. Stepping the masts, and replacing the main mast step, putting a wind generator on the mizzen, and putting actual mast steps on both.

Original fuel tank is leaking after some of the weather we've been through, so I'm getting a new aluminum one fabricated, and I'm leaning towards doing a 35 gallon with a 15 gallon day tank and polishing system. Haven't had issues with bad diesel yet, but we're pretty paranoid about that. Discovered that leak trying to track down some oil leaking from the engine. It's near the timing cover. She has still started every time without fail, so I'm doing everything I can to keep her going without repowering.

I did want to share one additional thing. Since I had to damage my v-drive rigging it up to keep limping along, I sent it in to Walter (they are still around, and still back their stuff), and the response I got was so hilariously passive aggressive proud. I've attached it.

[SVJourney]

Heyya,  good to hear from you.
That is indeed a hero's laundry list of things to do.  Esp in Indiantown in the middle of summer!  Hope it all works out well for you.

[Jordan]

Oh man. When you said hero, I remembered another comment about the toe rail (maybe from you). I actually did that on the hook in the Bahamas.

Only had two issues. First was fiberglass wasn't happy being stored in such a high humidity environment for a couple of years.
Second was one of the tracks still tried to straighten out upon removal, and punctured one of the SUPs.

Heyya,  good to hear from you.
That is indeed a hero's laundry list of things to do.  Esp in Indiantown in the middle of summer!  Hope it all works out well for you.

How've you two been? Last I remember, you were shopping for a new sailboat after trawlering around for a bit.