s/v Discovery

Been really busy juggling glassing in the engine bearers as well as all the other engine room projects, a steady parade of friends visiting, and some set dressing work in Hollywood.  Needless to say we're not as far along as hoped (surprise!)  Here are pics in the  (somewhat) order that these projects were done. Diaphragm bilge pump base assembly in need of some repair old hose fitting New hose barbs cut from a brass nipple and epoxied in old water heater good riddance found something in the manual bilge pump a paint marker, at least I know the pump can produce suction rotted deck on the left was torn out and replaced old bank. hoisted out the same way as the water heater nice crack new battery box, actually, there was no battery box at all previously plywood was glassed, box assembled, filleted with thickened resin, then corners tabbed and painted new bank hex bolts were c...

Spent the past week tearing apart Discovery's engine room. After the engine was removed, I began by cleaning the oil and sludge with oil absorbent pads, and after finally getting the bilge dry I was able to really get in and do some damage. finally reached the bottom I took a closer look at the engine bearers, which are timbers glassed to the hull and forward bulkhead, I had planned to through bolt aluminum angle to them, then through bolt the engine mounts to the angle. Tapping on the bearers produced a totally hollow sound. Oh Boy. I cut a couple of patches out, and after a bunch of water and sludge drained out, I discovered what I already knew deep down, they were completely rotted. The factory had left a couple of spots at the forward corners for water to get in, along with oil, sludge and anything else in the bilge water. I cut away the fiberglass shell, and the port side bearer literally crumbled apart. At some point one of the PO's had re-powered with ...