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E30+ 1984, San Juan Island, Wa
I just purchased an extremely nice single owner Ericson 30 plus 1984 tall rig. She's in great, almost incredible shape but..since it's a boat, she needs a ton of work too. I have a huge dump of questions so I was hoping someone might have some answers to some of them.
1. Shrouds are original and at this age should be replaced despite that they look absolutely flawless. Should the turnbuckles also be replaced? They look excellent, other than the fact that the threads look a little discolored. Has anyone used RiggingOnly.com as a sort of DIY solution? I think they will make rigging to length, couldn't tell.
2. On the cabin lights, most of the covers are failing because the plastic is simply old. One light is missing altogether. These are the square plastic lights and I think they're pretty nice looking overall. Are covers and replacement lights available anywhere? If not I may spend the $400 to replace them all with nice brass LED lights like this https://store.marinebeam.com/5-5-led-cabin-dome-light-stainless-steel-or-lacquered-brass/
3. The depth sounder and wind instrument have stopped working. They are DMI brand. The guages are on but reading zero. Any common failure points here, such as connectors or cables I should check in particular? Otherwise I will just begin poking around with the multimeter. Supposedly they're good instruments, although parts are now quite expensive. http://www.dmimarine.com/parts/index.HTML
4. Woodwork. Some of the floor needs refinishing (not a ton). Can I just use a matte polyurethane? Was it originally varnish, should I use that? Likewise the walls and paneling, are they simply oiled with teak oil? They look good but it wouldn't hurt to do again.
5. Sails. The main in particular will need replacing sooner than later. Also, the roller furling sail is slightly short and requires a pendant to keep a safe halyard angle on the top...slidey rolley thing. Should the new sail be taller to use all available area? For the main, is there a preferred arrangement for cruising sails on these boats? Partial battens? Number of reefs? It's a huge main, I'll ask for some deep reefs, for sure.
6. Anything I should know about this motor? It's been upgraded to a larger heat exchanger and the exhaust one way valve before the wet exhaust bucket thing has been swapped for simple a uhm..loop. like..up and then down again. Like a P trap in reverse. Is there a run down of all the wear/ maintenance items? I understand them to be: oil filter, oil, fuel filter (what microns, where is the primary located?), Occasionally clean heat exchanger and replace zinc pencil, occasionally clean wet exhaust bucket thingy.
7. Any other tips you can leave me with?
Thank you!
1. Shrouds are original and at this age should be replaced despite that they look absolutely flawless. Should the turnbuckles also be replaced? They look excellent, other than the fact that the threads look a little discolored. Has anyone used RiggingOnly.com as a sort of DIY solution? I think they will make rigging to length, couldn't tell.
2. On the cabin lights, most of the covers are failing because the plastic is simply old. One light is missing altogether. These are the square plastic lights and I think they're pretty nice looking overall. Are covers and replacement lights available anywhere? If not I may spend the $400 to replace them all with nice brass LED lights like this https://store.marinebeam.com/5-5-led-cabin-dome-light-stainless-steel-or-lacquered-brass/
3. The depth sounder and wind instrument have stopped working. They are DMI brand. The guages are on but reading zero. Any common failure points here, such as connectors or cables I should check in particular? Otherwise I will just begin poking around with the multimeter. Supposedly they're good instruments, although parts are now quite expensive. http://www.dmimarine.com/parts/index.HTML
4. Woodwork. Some of the floor needs refinishing (not a ton). Can I just use a matte polyurethane? Was it originally varnish, should I use that? Likewise the walls and paneling, are they simply oiled with teak oil? They look good but it wouldn't hurt to do again.
5. Sails. The main in particular will need replacing sooner than later. Also, the roller furling sail is slightly short and requires a pendant to keep a safe halyard angle on the top...slidey rolley thing. Should the new sail be taller to use all available area? For the main, is there a preferred arrangement for cruising sails on these boats? Partial battens? Number of reefs? It's a huge main, I'll ask for some deep reefs, for sure.
6. Anything I should know about this motor? It's been upgraded to a larger heat exchanger and the exhaust one way valve before the wet exhaust bucket thing has been swapped for simple a uhm..loop. like..up and then down again. Like a P trap in reverse. Is there a run down of all the wear/ maintenance items? I understand them to be: oil filter, oil, fuel filter (what microns, where is the primary located?), Occasionally clean heat exchanger and replace zinc pencil, occasionally clean wet exhaust bucket thingy.
7. Any other tips you can leave me with?
Thank you!
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