Greek Princess 310

Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Still locked in the Yard - 29th April 2020

We have been locked out of the yard for over a month now (since 24th March), its really painful not being able to get the the boat and get on with some work given how much there is to do.

Still locked in awaiting a return to water

Monday, 23 March 2020

Second Coat of Anti-Foul - 23rd March 2020

Went to the boat before the Coronavirus lock down happens, the second coat has made the hull look a very solid black.

Second coat of anti-foul on

Friday, 20 March 2020

Web Cam Back Online - 20th March 2020

ECA Web Cam back up and running which is great to see.

Greek Princess sitting proud in the ECA yard

Monday, 16 March 2020

Anti-Foul Day - 16th March 2020

Beautiful warm day has allowed for sanding the bottom and getting the anti-foul on, all looking fresh and new again.

Finally got the bottom paint on

Stern looking good

All coming together now

Starboard Side

Port Side

Sunday, 15 March 2020

Sides stripped and prepped - 13th March 2020

Finally got the sides stripped and primed already for the anti-foul, put up the new blinds and repaired the transom gate.

Starboard Side stripped and sanded

Port Side stripped and sanded

Starboard side primed

Port Side primed

Saturday, 7 March 2020

New blind for Patio Door - 7th March 2020

Finally purchased the blind for the patio doors, Zena and I went to the boat for a bit of cleaning and to mount the new blind.

New Curtain and matching cushions to finish the job

New blind installed and the green curtains are gone

Friday, 6 March 2020

New Mini Polisher for the difficult bits - 6th March 2020

Gloriously sunny day today, so managed to get half a day with the new mini polisher so started on the tricky bits

Top side edge polished

Started of the transom area

The stern came up lovely the new polisher is excellent

Starboard side done

Port side sorted

Slowly getting her back to her former glory

Sunday, 1 March 2020

Hull Polishing - 1st March 2020

Cleaned the rub rail area as it was mouldy and set about polishing the upper hull and went over the lower area for a second time, just need to now start the upper wheel house and fly bridge area, and will go over the lower hull again nearer to the launch date.

Starboard front side sorted

Port side front done

Starboard side stern all polished up

Port side stern done

Finally feel like were getting somewhere starting to look clean.

Friday, 21 February 2020

The Polishing and Painting begin - 21st February 2020

The mechanics are now fully sorted so started to prime the other drive and transom and then started the polishing, really excited as we can now see the boat beginning to be fully restored to her former glory, roll on the summer.

The right side (as you view) nice and shinny

There's a lot of boat to polish so better crack on with it and stop admiring my handy work

Stern primed and port side leg/drive sorted, already for first coat of anti foul

Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Drive Rebuild Complete - 19th February 2020

The leg is finally completed and back on the boat, fully calibrated the leg trim sensor to -4 and adjusted the toe in to -15 mm. Need to crack on now with anti-foul and polishing if we could just get some sustained good weather.

Mechanics fully sorted.

Saturday, 15 February 2020

Leg Finally reunited with the boat - 14/15th February 2020

After many months of waiting for the insurance to pay out so we could repair the drive we bit the bullet and just got on with rebuilding the drive and shaft, we got Rowland Marine to replace the intermediate drive shaft and gimble bearing assembly/press the swivel tube into the new casting and change the UJ coupler whilst I rebuilt the whole drive with new seals and resprayed the leg and then spent a couple of days at the boat reassembling it and then putting the new transmission oil in.