Top Renovation

[Arnaudgli]

Goedemorgen, Hello everyone,

My name is Arnaud, from France. I recently start the renovation of a TOP given to me by a retired Dutch couple living in the Médoc region, in France. The boat had been stored for many years in a garage and is therefore in relatively good condition.

Having already made progress on the hull, I’m now looking at the rigging.
Sails are not in pretty good shape and somebody talked me about Zeilmakerij Molenaar. In fact, one sail come from them. I have already take contact with them but as my budget isn't unlimited i would like to know if some of you could have spare sail for sale.
Depending of the price I need grootzeil+genua, spi is optional for me with my budget. That would obviously involve sending it all the way to France.

Also I’d like to know if you have any photos of the rigging: the sheet routes, the halyard system, and so on… I already have the official plans, but it would still be helpful to see how others have set things up.

Last question, I mainly use International painting and anti fouling on this project, so I was actually planning to use their wood varnish as well, but do you have a recommended brand?

Thanks for your time
Arnaud Gallani
France

[primrose]

Hi Arnoud,

There should be plenty of useable old sails available. I don’t have any myself, but I can ask around. If it helps I can bring stuff to a location near Saint-Quentin (02).

We use a lot of products from a brand called De IJssel coatings, but I expect that’s a brand name they only use in The Netherlands. I think any good quality product can be fine. Two component epoxy based is the best.

[cvandermeer]

Hi Arnaud,

I'm curious about your restoration process on the Hull. Have you documented it, did you make pictures?
Also the boat plans, is that something you can share?

[Arnaudgli]

Hi,

I’m not an expert but I can share what process I choosed. Here a link of some photos taken a long the restoration (not in order) :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... RuhlYyjcXN


First, big sanding obviously, a lot of layer from old paint and anti fouling. I didn’t sand all layers since some of them where still pretty strong.

My hull wasn’t in good shape due to a past accident so I used « Watertite », an epoxy filler from International, to fill every gap or hole, up to 2-3cm max in theory (I used a lot this product in the past for various things, some bigger than 2cm, also in multiple layers for big gaps, and it’s still pretty sturdy).

Depends of the state of your dagger-board hole, but mine was also not in a good shape on the surface. I cleaned it, fill big gaps with filler again and add some « Sikaflex » between piece of wood before screwing it.

For the painting, I used « Interprotect », a bi-component prime/undercoat also from International. Put 5 layers, It is customary to alternate between several colours for easy futur sanding. You will see on some photos that I had to sand it down again and repaint a bit. I don't know why the paint has blistered, maybe due to raindrop and humidity, maybe due to some old layer of paint.

And last, 2 layers of anti fouling.

As I said, not an expert, my only knowledge is from boats restoration in my boys scout mouvement « Scout Marin de Bordeaux » where we are not always in a meticulous and neat finish to be honest (but our boats still shine and float).

[primrose]

Hi Arnaud,

Unfortunately we do not have access to your pictures in that folder. The easiest way to place pictures on this forum is just to drag&drop them into the text box when you type a message. This will upload the picture to the "attachments" tab after which you can click on the "place in text" button to place it somewhere in your message.

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