Vira - Sailboat rebuild, Irwin Citation 34

 Day 206, New Fixed windows trim installation.   Interior (small things) Fixed windows  New trim around fixed windows made out of teak and installed. each trim piece made of 4 parts. all cut on my workshop CNC out of teak wood. Only thing left here - paint the gap between window and trim.    Other things done today Made and  installed Door-cover under the AC inlet. LPG sensor - alarm installed. I installed the alarm ind found it is alarming all time. I am pretty sure I have no LPG on the board.  I bought the sensor several years ago, and it was on the boat all the time and likely was "poisoned" by paint thinners fumes. Ordering a replacement. Other small things Replaced engine overheat dumb lamp fixture (original had rubber disintegrated) .   In attempt to tight engine (ignition) switch  I broke it, by break line it was cracked for a while.  Good to get it broken at the dock ;-)   Connected compass light back, added connector f...

 Engine  Still working on fresh cooling conversion. A lot of learn, check, try, source, return (thanks Amazon), weld, paint, try again.   LINK TO FULL REPORT IS HERE   Engine assembled and run with  dual cycle cooling system.   During test run digital temperature sensor showed 68C maximum on free run engine for an hour. Technically, without load i can't get engine to produce enough heat to run thermostat fully open. Partial opening makes to cool enough. More testing will be done on the boat. Hope for better;-)   Also I found one overheat sensor 95C tripped alarm during the engine test run. Other did not tripped at all. Tested first one in the bucket with water on the stow,  it is tripping about 65C, however it marked for 95C. Second one did not tripped in oil bath up to 150C - likely it is not an ALARM switch.    [update] Custom water manifold replaced with T connector, it gave me an inch to lower thermostat ant top hose. Engine mount p...

Weekend off.  I lost previous weekend because stuck in business trip. No post sometimes means nothing done,  Air conditioner  Since I took engine home I had a problem.  HVAC water pump was not able to start due to waterline appeared below pump level resulting water run out of pump. As soon as pump ins not self priming it did not work. To fight the situation I added  check valve near AC water discharge preventing water run back and let air to pump.   Originally, I built some king of silencer here, but it took a lot of volume and really did not silenced ait flow too much.  So, silencer removed and replaced with Y duct now.  Second thing why I gigged here was the  problem with electrically controlled valves. I thought one of them just broken, but it appeared the issue in connecting them in parallel. DO not connect these valves in parallel, otherwise they back feed each other and never stop. Decoupling diodes must be installed on the ground lines...

Time to show  the new interior. Welcome on the board.     General. Almost all plywood in the interior replaced with couple exclusions - Port side part of main bulkhead, walls around the head, 3 panels left in galley cabinets and some solid wood trimming parts. New starboard main bulkhead mounted. Floor replaced with high quality hard PVC flooring.  All gelcoat (white) inside is slightly sanded to refresh it and clean of "ups" epoxy drops paint and 46 years weathering, polished and waxed. Galley New galley countertop, completely rebuilt all rebuilt galley cabinets. Added drawer under stove cavity. "cap board" rebuilt, shelves have roulette doors now, Big rolling out  drawer added under the cockpit sit. New combined electric panel. Icebox rebuilt to built in refrigerator. Microwave installed on the stove gimbaled shelf under the LPG cooking surface.  Plenty of 110V outlets  mounted to avoid any splitters.    Nav desk rebuilt, Installed na...

Galley Galley countertop dry fit and adjusting to place.  Final edge cut and trimming Electronics/navigation Cockpit display dry fit (50% brightness on picture) Clearly readable.   Frame painted with layer of gelcoat. covering with film to protect from coming rain. Galley  Propane linereplacement. Put a new propane nine. Original one had several connected segments. I think it is not a really good idea. Refrigerator  Foamed gap around ice chest box as much as i can. Added small fan to circulate air inside cooler box, I have got  7C in 3 hours. testing. lowest temperature is 5C. However condenser is really hot (60C at least), likely will add another fan to it to avoid too high temperature difference as to make better efficiency. Air conditioner. Made new teack wood grill  and installed it.