Where do we start?

This photo displays the starboard side of the boat as she looked like the day we bought her. The previous owner had removed a lot of the exterior paint and had started removing all the caulking in the hull, but from what we were told that had been over the past 3 years or so while it sat in dry dock. A family had been living full-time onboard but did not do any type of preventative or emergency repairs. The roof leaked so bad into the upper cabin that a lot of wood was damaged or destroyed which could have been prevented and therefore cost less time and money in repairs. Most of the deck level railing was gone, signs that some of them had been cut off and others rotted away. The top fly-deck railing of teak was in good shape, only needs some sanding and Teaqua teak stain to look good again.

First order of business was to clean out all of the trash left behind, which filled three large dumpsters. Reusable parts were cleaned up and set aside to be reused at a later date. Starting to tear out the rotted/bad wood in the upper cabin or "salon" area. Inspection of every joint in the walls of the upper and lower cabins revealed joints that needed to be recaulked, trim that was loose or needed replacement, and a visual check of all of the windows revealed that every window needs track replacement.

Removed the exterior artwork - carved dragons on front and back decorative carved wood design on rear or aft sections. Rub rails were removed as the wood beneath was beginning to rot, so rails need to be reformed to direct water run-off away from the hull.