Oasis Cruise & Travel Stories  

This is the cabin sole or as land lubbers say "the floor". It is Brazilian cherry with a Tung oil finish.

The captains bed with it's 6 inch foam mattress. Under the bed is the steering quadrant.

This is a view of the engine room with the cockpit floor removed. You can see the dual fuel filtering system and the sound absorbent lining. This is a 35 hp three cylinder Isuzu.

This is the forward or main head with a shower. There is another smaller head in the rear cabin.

We found some time to sew sails in the winter. These were from Sailrite. That is a Sailrite sailmaking sewing machine in the foreground . If you want to check out their web site it is http://www.sailrite.com .

I made a dodger to cover the companion way. It has Lexan windows with the center one in the front an opening one. The Bimini behind the Dodger is made of Sunbrella over a stainless tube frame. On top of the Dodger, I mounted two 75 watt solar panels, there will be two more mounted on a frame over the rear end of the boat.

Lynn is trying out the new cushions on the settee.

The table. As you can see it is hard to get the right angle to take picures in a boat.

This is the galley with it's extra deep double sinks, fridge/freezer, three burner propane stove, propane demand water heater, microwave, etc.

The start of my Nav station with my folding stool.

Lynn sewed on upholstry fabric onto the settee cushions. Then I covered them with plastic to protect them until we get out to the coast.

The crane truck arrived to lift the boat out of the pit that I had the keel in.

We estimate the weight of the boat to be about 14,000-16,000 lbs (7-8 tons). The neighbours thought this was quite the sight to see the boat dangling in the air.

I had to cover in the bottom of the boat to keep the hull warm while I painted below the water line with two part epoxy indercoat and then the ablative anti-fouling paint.

On the lead part of the keel I had to smooth out the lead as it came out of the mold a little bumpy with some deep indents. I used a power planner and very coarse sanding disk first to smooth it out then epoxy filler to fill in the indents, then metal etching paint then metal primer then epoxy undercoat and finaly the ablative anti-fouling.

Lynn is under the boat to give everyone an idea of the size of it.

Now we are waiting for the truck to come to take it out to the coast.

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