s/y Fiona - our Bruce Roberts Offshore 44'
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To left is the stainless chainplates had been welded on to the old iron chainplates.

Right is the result when smoothing things down...
To the right is the aft cabins without any "walls" between the two cabins. The rudder post is at it's lowest position but when rudder is in place it will penetrate the cealing...Need to lower this upper bearing so the quadrant gets located below the bed bottom. Some kind of a roll-bearing with integrated sealings will be attached.
Heater is removed. All aluminum panel will go away and a locker and shelf will be built here instead. In the original plans the space had been a saillocker. After that the heater went in and a place to dry cloths next to it.

Now we need the space for storage or possible to extend or move the pentry forward...
Seven winches is now cleaned and oiled - never use thick grease in winches! In our cold climate the grease gets stiff around +5C (41f) and it gets hard to turn the winch. I tried to use the winches on the mast at -13C (8f) and then even the "backrollstoppers-on-go-one-direction-bits (?)" in the winches could stop working! Oil - No grease!

So only four winches left - those on the mast.

Here you see the inside of an Andersen 56ST. All parts is in very high quality material and ever lasting! I also have two small Lewmar winches and it contains plastic "backrollstoppers-not-going-backwards-again-things (?whtsitcalld?)" witch will get wornout by time. So with these cheap ones you have to calculate malfunction someday....