Work on Misogi's planking has come temporarily come to a halt because Randy (or rather, his wife) had a baby. We have; however, made a lot of progress on other parts of the boat. David and my dad screwed and glued most of the plywood panels down for the upper deck, and David re-assembled the rotten pilothouse corner with new wood. I made several new dutchmans in frames, and trimmed excess plywood off the new decking. A few smaller projects have been started, including replacing the rotten wall around the sliding door, and installing some new wood panels on the engine air intakes.
My dad and I have also started to work on the electrical system. Because the old electrical system was dangerously mcgyvered-together, and because we are planning on running most of the boat's systems off of solar power, we are going to have to replace and re-arrange all of the batteries, move most of the switch panels, and re-route all the wires that run between the batteries and the panels. So far, we have installed the new 32 volt starting bank, removed extraneous wires and inverters, and installed the new 12 volt cables running to the pilothouse.
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| Wires. Lots and Lots of Wires. |
