Pretty much the same photo's as in the previous post but better light and all ready to go sailing. 

The saloon table on the telescopic pedestal. Bottle of red on the wine rack. 

Master cabin.  All completed and oh so comfortable. 

I found this 'setamship era' port light that lets light in to the Master cabin from the port side bathroom.

The forward 'sail & rope locker' bunk.  Grand kids love this space.

This is my first post for quiote some time.  Serenity is now operational again after a long period of re-fit both inside and out.  For both Serenity and me.  While the re-fit will never end, she is pretty much fully operational.  As for me, I'm pretty much operational with most of the broken bones mended as well as can be expected..

Serenity now in a pen at the Mandurah Offshore Fishing & sailing Club.

Great pen, great club, great location.

 

The interior has been completely re fitted with a new galley/nav desk layout made possible by the removal of the diesel engine.

Looking forward from the entry hatch.

Looking back the other way.

Galley. Now on the Port side.

Nav desk, Stbd side.

Saloon with new table that pushes down to make that saloon sofa in to a double bed.

 

Saloon and single bunk Stbd side.  Note the document storage box under the nav desk.  Re-cycled door panel.

Masters cabin.  Bunk pulls out to make double bed.  

Forward 'sail locker' has bunk port side and storage for sails and tender outboard motor port side.

Shower and head.  Note we've removed the bulkhead between head and shower and installed a water tank dedicated to shower only.

Head from master's cabin side door.

The shower and head share the same floor area.  Shower water drains to grey water tank underfloor. Shower curtain reduces water splash.

Back to the galley on the way astern again.  Island galley bench has plenty of storage and we've been able to retain most of the original timber including doors, rails and posts.

Note that this bench is where the diesel engine used to be.

From these pic's you'll see that there are still some areas that need to be completed but she is operational and just waiting for the weather to pick up.  It's been a huge job getting to this stage but every weekend now we see progress as more tasks are being ticked of as 'completed' rather than 'ongoing'.

This is a picture of the first time I ever laid eyes on Serenity.  Almost forgotten, up alongside a coastal trader in a small ship yard 20 nm from Honiara, Guadalcanal, August 2003.  An lot of water has gone under her keel these past 12 years.

Some shots of the aft deck area and shows the new dodger installed on the bottom half of the stern rail.  Deck here is about to be re-planked in teak and as you can see, is still a work in progress.

 Shows the new dodger from astern.  Not so sure about the white rope.

Another shot of the new biminis and the dodger.  That cusioned area up behind the helm chair is about as good a place as you can imagine to kick back with a crisp dry Margaret River SSB.

This is the view of the new galley from the saloon.  Port side and shows what you can achieve when you get rid of that space occupying diesel engine.  The floor is to be planked with West Australian Red Gum with white caulking.  Those new steps and bench edge trims are from the same timber.

Another shot of the galley. Small fridge, galley basin in the middle and gymbled stove with nice island bench where the motor used to be.  Awaiting teak louvred door on cupboard below the sink.

Looking thru saloon to the new galley.

 The new nav desk now on the starb'd side.  Chart drawer built in.

Another shot of the nav desk and note the width of the steps.  Moving that freezer closer to the hull opened up tha space and allowed me to open that entry way right up.

Saloon area taken from the galley and looking through in to the forward 'Masters' cabin.  The table is on a telescopic pedestal and also slides sideways.  Can be pushed down to make that port side lounge in to a queen sized bed.  12V television with built in DVD player mounted above stbd bunk.  What's not so obvious are the tiny Bose cube speakers up in the corners.  Cranked up with Jimmy Buffett music it sounds jast great.

 The latest shots of Serenity at home.  This is the North side of a jetty facing west.  The bad weather, when it comes, comes from the north and pushes us against the jetty.  Wind pressure on the spars creates quite a lean.  One week after this photo was taken a storm blew in from the north with gusts up to 50kts.  Ripped off about 6m of the port cap rail.  Oh well, it is a B.O.A.T.

You can see the new bimini cover.  It starts about 400mm forward of the mizzen mast.  Large zippered panel gives access to the mizzen boom.  Two panels aft can be folded back when we set the mizzen.  That storm didn't even flap the canvas.

Here we are at the jetty.  Home base. Since I posted the last photo I had a bit of a misshap that stalled all work on Serenity but now just getting back in to it.  Both masts stepped and balanced. Main mast chain plates well and truly water proofed with good ol' Sikka where they come thru the deck and my lady is patiently waiting for sails.  You can see that the bow thruster tunnel us prety much under water.  Once the main sail and jib get loaded the water line will be true.

Here she is tied up at the jetty where she will hopefully be for years to come.  We made the journey from up-river yacht club to the marina with the escort assistance of the Fremantle Sea Search & Rescue boat.  While every system was checked and double checked this was first time in the water with new motor (the electric drive), untested main battery bank, bow thruster, new rudder and with the 2 masts strapped to the cabin roof, she would be vulnerable to other boats wakes and tidal rush etc.  As it happens we got her down river and safely tied up without a hitch.  Masts will come off and be cleaned up etc and mid Feb should see the first journey under sail.

We re-floated It's The Serenity Monday and spent the next 2 days prepping for the run down river to the pen.  Getting the masts from their not so clean storage place, up against the back fence of the yacht club, to the Etchel crane wharf then on board was a challenge but like all cruising yachties, we triumphed.

In the time we were tied up over the last 2 days we had countless visitors admiring the boat, the paint job and the fact that she was finally floating again after 3 years.  Many weekends of hard work paid off as we wallowed in the warmth of the admirers.