It’s nice to see things progressing like they are in a project with a scope that has gorwn increasingly larger and more complex.  Here we have more photos of the work going on at Yachting Solutions Shop.  Just below, a look inside the painted machinery space.  All ready to recieve the motors and various equipment.
 

Installation of the internal stringers and floors
 
Here is where old school technology meets new.  In order to install this pod system, the structural detail of Corisande needed to be adjusted and revamped.  The old framing and stringers were removed from the bottom of the boat within the machinery space to leave a clean inner planking [...]

Action photo of the rough opening getting cut out of the bottom of the hull.

Upon checking in on the Corisande project with Yachting Solutions last week, we all got a chuckle about the Murphy’s law behind restoration projects in general as the boys discovered yet one more problem area in the bow of the boat.  [...]

Careful fitting of topside planking down onto chinelog.

 Yachting Solutions & The Refit Construction Phases Begin    

Just a little background on a rising star here in Maine, is well deserved.  A reasonably new marine service company has struck new chords and sparked some interest and controversy here on the coast of Maine.  Yachting Solutions has become known [...]

Paul Waring continues to write about the Corisande refit project at Yachting Solutions— 1955 vintage Huckins meets modern Volvo Propulsion

Two packages were considered and we worked on them together, and parallel to each other, until we had enough data from each representative to base a sound decision.  On the ZF side of the equation, our client [...]

Paul Waring writes about Corisande— 1955 vintage Huckins meets modern Volvo Propulsion

 When our client first came at us with the need for our help on getting this project off the ground, we were working with him on a 44 ft planing power yacht design of very light weight and minimal accommodation.   This is a high [...]

Last week we gathered our tools together—laser level, long tape measures, and straight-edges—and “shot” the chainplates aboard Va Pensiero, the 48’ sloop that will get a new, taller mast and higher performance sail plan next spring.  “Shooting” the chainplates lets us determine their location in three-dimensional space, relative to the boat’s hull, deck, and mast [...]