Looking great, thanks for sharing

Nicely done.

The old spots you are finding going into the gelcoat look like blisters having been removed and filled

Nice work.

Good to have you back on deck

Well done clear progress , hopefully you will enjoy sailing soon !!

nice. Will you continue sharing your story?

Many thanks for informative video! I have used VC17 Extra in seawater for the last 20 years - works ok on the West Coast of Norway. However, it is now removed from the marked, as it contains a component that is forbidden from 2024 in Europe. So I need to do some work "down under" on my Sun Fast 37 :-(.

Great video and attention to detail. I had my boat sandblasted just before the Canadian winter and will do the same job in the spring. I had understood the recommendation was to get all of the interprotect coats on in one go, waiting in between coats until it was tacky but did not come off on your finger tips. Seems you did it over a couple of weekends. Did you have to sand in between?

Thanks for this great video

Let me know if you need pictures of the compressor/cooler in the port lazarette. It is the actual setup on Jean-du-Sud.

The 2 inch cockpit drains are wise. Might consider putting a portable fridge-freezer or 2 in the storage closet across from the head, which would allow modifying the old ice box into the expanded galley area you desire. If you do extended cruising you will want two full size berths in the main cabin, one for each tack. There is a table that starts will an L that bolts on and is removable and with a second mount in the cockpit. James Baldwin uses them. Nice job on the outboard installation - keeps the petroleum smell out of the boat.

Are you going to nonskid?

I don't see why you spent all that money on fairing compound. Because I don't think the fish would have complained about it. And the fish would have been the only ones to see it. Once it was in the water, it would not have affected performance.

Thank you so much for posting these vidios. I have an Alberg 30 that need these same upgrades, manymof which I didn't even know how to start. Thanks to you I may get mine off the hard.

Well done Aqua Marie, having done this same job on a sailboat years ago I can respect the work involved to get the bottom to the state she is in. A 20 minute video can't do justice to the endless hours it takes to get to the end product.

Looking good

Yep, removing VC-17 is a pain. I am currently removing it from my Sonar. When I got the old Sonar, it needed a new bottom job. I sanded, ground out cracks, and filled and faired. Then I put on 4 coats of Interlux Interprotect. Then I put on the VC-17. Unfortunately I was in a hurry and did not realize how much orange peel I would have. I added another coat of VC-17 the next year. This year I decided to remove the VC and the orange peel. Best way I've found is an air driven inline sander with 80 grit paper. It is heavy but by spreading the work out over several days and only working an hour or two at a time, I've been able to get most of it off. Good luck. Take breaks.

Sir you already have blisters. That's what you see that is broken open

Good to see you back at it Aqua Marie, looking forward to the progress and future posts

You can put in a sleeve on the shoe and make it work

Excelent! Thanks 🙏🏻

Super helpful! What thickness of new core did you use?

Full points for the Sam Holmes reference!

Look up glissando Pearson triton#381 restoration

Beautiful and worthy project

Hey Dan I just met you at our boat the Ranger Tug on the wall at Fort Edward I look forward to watching your videos and reliving my past renovation of my 1967 Ericsson 30

finally caught up watching all of your videos, keep up to great work. you should add all of your videos to a playlist for easy watching i was going to Suggest you could get a electric outboard but then I looked at the prices. It would probably be cheaper to get a engineless outboard and attach your own electric motor and Make sure the motor and speed controller have regeneration capabilities. you could use you 9hp outboread for a dingy or Swap it for a less powerful one.

I wonder about the fwd hatch cover with the screw heads; I’m thinking it might be a good seal but a wicked surface with those heads all around. I am looking because I’d like to alter mine too but haven’t seen a fix which resolves the attachment dilemma. 🧐

Kiwigrip is great stuff, it is very tough too. Yes it does get dirty and hold dirt. Soap and water fixes that , lol. I recently made new counter tops for our boat. I epoxy sealed them and applied kiwigrip as the finished surface. Not coasre texture , but a very smooth low texture surface achieved with a normal low nap roller. It looks great! Same type of texture you could get from Formica.

For those needing the nut on the inside (which the rebuild kit does not include), it is a 1/2" x 12. Most US stores only carry 1/2" x 13 or 1/2" x 14. I found a 316 SS 1/2" x 12 at britishfasteners.com/.

The barrier coat primer is intended to be thick and the seal the hull from water intrusion. It can be used topside, I have done it. It is hard to sand if you want a smooth finish but great for under coating bottom paint. Slop it on thick and heavy and it is a great product.

I am painting our this week too, under a tarp like yours. Lots of heat and humidity here. Interlux oyster white is what I am using, looks like the same color you are using. I am almost 60yrs old, I feel sore today. I have to break the deck and cockpit up into three sections to paint. Like you said, kiwigrip hides a lot of stuff. I am running low on paint and it always seems hard to get the color I am using , so I decided to tripple prime the areas under the kiwigrip and save the oyster white for the parts that show. I don't mind a less than perfect finish,orange peel is our friend, lol. An old guy with a big steel boat told me once, 80% is 100% for a boat that sits in the water. Your boat looks great!

How long did the actual deck painting take for each coat?

If you want to try out sailing an Alberg and you're going to be near Baltimore this summer, let me know, I'd be glad to take you out on my Alberg 35. A little larger but the same basic design, I suspect pretty much similar sailing characteristics.

I have an Albert 35 with a Yanmar 3gm30f. I ‘m one of those guys who watches every Baldwin video and read his books so I’m familiar with the iconversion he does. I think you hit it right: the outboard thing is great IF you are committed to sailing everywhere an just getting in and out of harbors with an engine. I’m on the Chesapeake; lots of light air here and I turn the engine on. I think you are going to want something more than an outboard and if electric is a no go then I’d keep what you’ve got, get the transmission fixed and do the conversion to heat exchanger

Excited to see what we talked about come to fruition. Very sorry to hear about the loss of your family members though. Big hugs to you and yours!!!

Great idea for the pin and bushing.

Ahhh its an Alberg 30! Been binging your videos as I have a sea sprite who ill be refitting.

Beautiful boat what is it?

Planning on doing a deck rebuild over the next few months, possible even doing some on the water in the summer, hopefully not as extensive as yours but who really knows, would love to know where u got the balsa coring seems like something Id be interested in using instead of balsa ply wood that I cut myself. Also how many hours did you put into the deck rebuild? I don’t have a house or anything so I am going to try and blitz in in a month, want to repaint the decks in the spring as well.

Keep up the good work. You have a great boat there. From one Pratt to another. I sail a C&C 35-3 down here in LIS. BTW, My daughter graduated from RIT a few years back. Great school.

You can just have a bronze sleeve made or find a bronze sleeve that fits your new “pin” size, drill out the shoe hole and have the bronze sleeve welded in. Should be good as new.

I put this on Facebook and I'll repeat it here. If the brass you can see looks OK, the brass you can't see will be better. At least that was the case for my rudder. If it's just the pin, then drill and tap and replace, like you say. The hole in the shoe can be replaced with a bushing. Or welded and re-drilled.

He attributes the breakage to the boat having struck something. Significantly, he also says he felt no impact, and it was more of a gradual release when it happened. Later he also notes the pink color of the bronze in his rudder shaft. Pink means that the bronze has dealloyed, and that makes it weak. Likely, the first part of the bronze rudder 'backbone' that would break would be the join at the shaft. This is where the thinner threaded rod which extends out into the blade is stressed highest by forces acting on the rudder. That the shaft turns but it does not deflect the rudder, shows us that this is where the breakage is located. So we know he had a weakened rudder structure, and the boat had a ton of weather helm. The stress from weather helm on a weak component would have been exacerbated by nonstop travel and usage over thousands of miles of seas. Given the above, I think it more likely his rudder structure broke because of stress over time, not because of an impact he didn't even feel or hear. WRT peeling the skin off of your rudder, if it were me, I would give it a good tap test with a hammer every inch or so all across the face of the rudder and especially near the shaft, listening for a 'dead' sound, a thunk that indicates water intrusion. *If* I heard an off sound like that, and only if, would I then go in for the elective, exploratory surgery. Otherwise, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. :)

D, if the bronze casting on the bottom is in good shape I would see about using a bushing. If it is bronze I'm not sure you could weld it. For a bushing over drill the casting if you can and put a bushing in there that your pin will fit in. I believe there are bronze bushings out there.

Thanks for the post. I'm taking the rudder off my 73' Alberg 30 tomorrow. Great reference!!

"buy a Boat" they said "it will be relaxing" they said. Keep up the good work

What color white is that ?