Head's Up! How To Retro-Fit A Headliner | Boat Refit Documentary Part 15
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- If you're interested in how to retro-fit a headliner - especially in an older style boat where there are timber beams involved, then this video is for you!
Huge thanks to Mark from Elite Marine Trimming for advising us through some of the processes and helping out with gluing the foam-backed vinyl to our custom-made panels.
As always, we hope you are educated and entertained!
💙 @shazatsea
Extra video clip sourced from TH-cam (extract from The Blues Brothers movie, featuring music from the song 'The Girl from Ipanema'):
• Blues Brothers elevato...
What a huge difference. The 'smoothness' looks factory. Well done guys.
Thank you very much! 🙏🏻
Nice job and great piano!
Thank you!
Bloody damn smashing Matey's!
This series of videos is without doubt the best DIY you tube self help material I have ever seen. Well done and its amazing how few people are looking at this. Perhaps you might reconsider your TH-cam channel to Older Yacht Refit to boost numbers! I was on to you previously and you very kindly responded to me directly! I bought my KP 44 last year and sailing her home from Southampton to Ireland. I love the way she sails in roughish weather. She is a class act and maybe you might share some sailing videos of your boat when you start to enjoy her after all this work! I don't have the skills you guys have to undertake the level of renovation on these videos and my standards are not as high as yours, in some ways thankfully! I solved the pub finish look of the headliner by applying semi flexible paint and painting the lot after applying a primer. No where near as good as yours but its better! I now have to rip out my diesel tanks as they are destroyed with rust (why install cheap metal tanks in the first place ..grrr) and replace with plastic. All costs gone up thanks to that $%£&*% Putin! In the meantime, I have some more questions!
How did you get your portholes looking so good? Did you have to remove them from the upper deck?
What batteries do you have and what battery management system do you use?
What engine is on board and how old?
What instrumentation do you use?
What sails do you have/use?
What are your long term sailing plans!
I'm planning to retire in a couple of years time, head south then head west. If I'm physically up to it, I might make OZ and
Hi Rob and thanks for your kind words.
We’ve been considering re-naming the channel when we eventually get to the point of sailing further afield than our local cruising grounds.
Perhaps by that point we’ll be calling it ‘Sailing a new-old yacht’ 😂
You’re the second person who’s asked about our port light surrounds recently. They were polished while removed for re-sealing. It’s not as difficult a job as you might think but like everything else requires a degree of elbow grease. If we end up doing the ones in the aft cabin I’m sure we’ll video it but that will be way down the track.
Our batteries are Fullriver AGM’s and we’ve installed a Victron solar controller and Victron 3000w 120a/h inverter charger. These have been the best AGM’s we’ve had (7 years so far), but when they go we’ll probably replace them with lithium.
Our engine is 4000-odd hour Perkins 4236 (85 HP). We think it was installed in about 1995 pre our ownership of the boat. It’s an absolute workhorse! We had to have a top end rebuild after getting a hydraulic lock in Bali back in 2006 but nothing except a new raw water pump & injector pump plus routine oil changes since.
Our instruments are a mix of old B&G quad and new Raymarine (chart plotter etc).
Sails are all now relatively new - partially battened main, hanked on staysail, 135% Genoa (furling), and Code Zero on a Selden furler.
Initially we planned to sail from our base here in the Whitsundays to the Kimberley in Australia’s northwest, with the boat in her old pre-refit condition. When Covid happened we decided to do the refit and have since been down that rabbit hole. Whenever the refit is finished we will re-assess and make a new plan then.
Hope that answers your questions and happy sailing on your KP 44!
Hi , I have a KP44 in Puerto Vallarta Mexico 1977 build . I bought Ubuntu in 2011 and have been refurbishing her ever since. I really enjoy your refurb videos.
I live in Sydney.
Cheers, Niall.
Wow, thanks for getting in touch! Always love hearing from a fellow KP44 owner. They are great boats.
Glad you like the videos. We used to live in Sydney too. In fact that’s where we initially sailed Brilliant II back to after buying her in Thailand in 2005. The weather and the traffic eventually drove us out and now we’re in the Whitsundays.
Mexico would be a pretty cool place to buy a boat. There is another KP44 there we connect with on Instagram called Key Lime Pie.
Happy Sailing!
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Thanks, very informative.
You’re very welcome. Hope it helps
Can you tell me what you put over the winch bolts protruding down through the headliner?
There’s a polished stainless steel backing plate bolted over the headliner with dome nuts to dress it off.
buy you guys some beers!