Here are a few of our boat maintenance and service projects that we have assigned to the professionals.

• Hinckley Yachts in Stuart, Florida replaced our cutlass bearings and rebalanced our propeller shafts. They also applied several fresh coats of premium anti-fouling paint, prop-seal, and shaft savers.
• North Sails cleaned, repaired and restitched our screecher, genoa and spinnaker sails.
• A custom canvas shop in NY restitched all the canvas on the boat, and re-sewed our trampolines with very-expensive-but-I’m-worth-it, UV-protective Gore Tenara threa
• Another specialty shop recovered all the cushions on the boat with new ultra-leather and replaced the isinglass on some of the panels in our cockpit enclosure with a thicker, more scratch and UV resistant product called makrolon that is also less prone to yellowing.
• Authorized technicians serviced and tuned up our engines and generator, going beyond the regular preventive maintenance tasks that Rand and I are doing.
  

  Before After

  Hinckley Yachts in Stuart, FL under Chuck Ruble‘s experienced direction gave us new antifouling paint on our hull, a new name on our transom, and excellent propeller, shaft & cutlass bearing work.

  Steve from Superior Diesel in Charleston was very good at Volvo service

old cushion, ultra-leather falling apart out with the yellow, cracked isinglass, trampolines and boat cushions (the old ultraleather was literally in shreds when we boat the boat), and in with the new – done by Elite Fabrications in Huntington NY reupholstered with new ultraleather

Photos of the Recovered Cushions at Elite Fabrications new cushions at Elite’s workroom our new inside navigation station seat part of the settee

Greg Fitzmaurice at Custom Marine Canvas in Oyster Bay, NY resewed all our canvas with Gore Tenara thread that will stand up to UV rays