I have purchased a 1976 C&C 33 MK I that had some fire damage (due to a fire on a neighboring boat) to the outside of the starboard side of the hull. she is floating but dirty all around. I am planing on doing a modest restore on her. I am not looking for perfection but for a nice fun to sail boat that I will also live on. The previous owner was kind of a down to basics kind of guy. No shore power, no real electronics hank on sails. his daughter said that they tried to talk him into self tailing winches, and he said "what do I need self tailers for? I have you to tail the lines!" Has lots of sails, and the rest of the boat appears to be pretty good. So the plan is this winter clean up the interior, get shore power set up and some sort of heat so I can spend at least weekends on board working on the boat. I have her in a winter wet storage slip and the everything is winterized except the engine. she has the mast down and winter cover frame is up. Once I am in the final "winter slip" I will winterize the engine. Once the weather warms up enough I will have the boat hulled and I will do fiberglass repairs and paint the exterior. So a couple of questions:
1.) First and really simple, where is the cushion for the double bunk supposed to go when not in use? I don't see any simple locations. I have moved it as there is a bit of deck leaking over that settee. 2.) There was some damage to the side of the hull, and the neighboring boat's mast came down on the cabin top. There is some cracking on the cabin top, soft side deck and both of the fixed ports are damaged. Obviously the ports are long off the market. I see a couple of options make over-sized ports and surface mount to the cabin top sides both sides. (likely least expensive) Get all new opening Bomar Gray 6X23 inch ports. Looks like they may fit, has anyone installed them? Get two bomar ports and move one of the existing ports over and have two fixed and two opening ports (saves some money but the lenses on the existing ports are not great and looks like someone has tried to stop leaks with caulk, so may just be full of frustration) 3.) Where can I find out the fiberglass layup schedule? I want to duplicate it as much as possible. I have read that they used unidirectional roving on the boat. My plan on the hull side is to put a few layers on inside just to hold the shape, then from the outside to grind down till I get to good glass and build back up from there. On the cabin top and side decks I plan on cutting off the top layer of fiberglass and replacing core and re-glass. Then paint the topsides and deck with one part paint and call it a day. Good news is the boat has a Atomic 4 that runs like a champ! Made the 25 mile trip from storage yard to new home without a hiccup.
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