Update from a new-ish Espace 1000 owner
Dec 3, 2019 14:57:22 GMT
Post by Thorfildur on Dec 3, 2019 14:57:22 GMT
So: it's been almost exactly 6 months since I became the new (to me) owner of a 1984-vintage Espace 1000.
She has been sat in a carpark since her road-trip from Glasgow to Kent, while I get familiar with the ins & outs - and hope to get her back in the water for next season.
I thought I'd share this update, mostly in the hope that the things I note below may have been encountered and overcome by you wonderful Jeanneau owners... (pretty-please!) and/or may be useful to anyone encountering such things in the future!
It also acts as a bit of a memory-jogger and hopefully some peer pressure will stop me getting lax!
1. new standing & running rigging: done!
2. leaking baby-stay causing damage to front bulkhead (means cutting & replacing a chunk of the v-berth/heads bulkhead). Not started yet, but there's a reason for that
3. leaks caused by very (very-very!) poorly fitted cheapie mid-deck cleats. Removed cleats, sealed holes and dried out affected area. Don't believe there's much/any soggy deck core... Genoa-track cleats will be fittied instead!
4. leaks under all port-side stanchion bases: it turns out the safety wire was soooo tightly drawn that the stanchions were being pulled inboard. I suspect that this has been going on for a while, as a previous owner had liberally smeared silicone sealant around the bases and left it!
5. leaking lower acryclic windows: removed and re-seated & sealed (now much drier!) 120-odd corroded alloy inter-screws replaced by "proper" A4 stainless-steel bolts. The deck-saloon windows will be next, but they don't leak anywhere near as much.
6. leaking forward/v-berth hatch. Recently discovered, so not started yet
7. Expired Eberspacher D3L C Compact: being replaced by a budget-friendly alternative. I suspect the expiration may have been caused by sea-water leaking in through the lazarette locker on to it (based on the white furry ECU) and the fuel-feed pump being in the bilge (brown & corroded pump). I'm planning to keep the replacement with with its own separate fuel tank, as I have no idea of the condition of the current/original tank, and the previous wiring & fuel-pipe run was err... "bodged".
8. removing about 60 feet of old 2-core wire that had just been cut and left in-situ.
9. replacing lights with LED strips - especially in the 2 cabins. (They're really dark cabins!)
10. replace/refurbish headlinings. cabin done, v-berth in progress, saloon a work-in-progress. I'm putting in plywood pads, as i cant understand why anyone would simply put long screws in to the deck. If there's source of water from above, it sits in the headliningin from above! (see 2,3,4,5 & 6...!)
11. removed very unpleasant Jabsco heads and replacing with camping toilet (for now). The toilet sea-cock is jammed/siezed open - but to get to it means removing the sink-cabinet in the heads, which itself is attached to the same bulkead as the baby-stay (see 2). I figured I might as well make a mess of the heads & bulkhead all in one go!
12. rewiring basically everything. The original pop-in/pop-out switches are unreliable and the negative bus-bar is a joke. Both of the transducers are boucing around in uncapped tubes and only one is wired up
13. rudder needs some patches on the trailing-edge sanding and re-glassing where the plywood is very nearly exposed
14. servicing the engine: a joyous job saved for next year
And that's kept me occupied for the last few months.
I'm really open to comments and suggestions!
She has been sat in a carpark since her road-trip from Glasgow to Kent, while I get familiar with the ins & outs - and hope to get her back in the water for next season.
I thought I'd share this update, mostly in the hope that the things I note below may have been encountered and overcome by you wonderful Jeanneau owners... (pretty-please!) and/or may be useful to anyone encountering such things in the future!
It also acts as a bit of a memory-jogger and hopefully some peer pressure will stop me getting lax!
1. new standing & running rigging: done!
2. leaking baby-stay causing damage to front bulkhead (means cutting & replacing a chunk of the v-berth/heads bulkhead). Not started yet, but there's a reason for that
3. leaks caused by very (very-very!) poorly fitted cheapie mid-deck cleats. Removed cleats, sealed holes and dried out affected area. Don't believe there's much/any soggy deck core... Genoa-track cleats will be fittied instead!
4. leaks under all port-side stanchion bases: it turns out the safety wire was soooo tightly drawn that the stanchions were being pulled inboard. I suspect that this has been going on for a while, as a previous owner had liberally smeared silicone sealant around the bases and left it!
5. leaking lower acryclic windows: removed and re-seated & sealed (now much drier!) 120-odd corroded alloy inter-screws replaced by "proper" A4 stainless-steel bolts. The deck-saloon windows will be next, but they don't leak anywhere near as much.
6. leaking forward/v-berth hatch. Recently discovered, so not started yet
7. Expired Eberspacher D3L C Compact: being replaced by a budget-friendly alternative. I suspect the expiration may have been caused by sea-water leaking in through the lazarette locker on to it (based on the white furry ECU) and the fuel-feed pump being in the bilge (brown & corroded pump). I'm planning to keep the replacement with with its own separate fuel tank, as I have no idea of the condition of the current/original tank, and the previous wiring & fuel-pipe run was err... "bodged".
8. removing about 60 feet of old 2-core wire that had just been cut and left in-situ.
9. replacing lights with LED strips - especially in the 2 cabins. (They're really dark cabins!)
10. replace/refurbish headlinings. cabin done, v-berth in progress, saloon a work-in-progress. I'm putting in plywood pads, as i cant understand why anyone would simply put long screws in to the deck. If there's source of water from above, it sits in the headliningin from above! (see 2,3,4,5 & 6...!)
11. removed very unpleasant Jabsco heads and replacing with camping toilet (for now). The toilet sea-cock is jammed/siezed open - but to get to it means removing the sink-cabinet in the heads, which itself is attached to the same bulkead as the baby-stay (see 2). I figured I might as well make a mess of the heads & bulkhead all in one go!
12. rewiring basically everything. The original pop-in/pop-out switches are unreliable and the negative bus-bar is a joke. Both of the transducers are boucing around in uncapped tubes and only one is wired up
13. rudder needs some patches on the trailing-edge sanding and re-glassing where the plywood is very nearly exposed
14. servicing the engine: a joyous job saved for next year
And that's kept me occupied for the last few months.
I'm really open to comments and suggestions!