Woodwind Yachts Antique and Classic Wooden Boat Restoration, Repair, Refinishing, Building and Sales

Woodwind Yachts Restoration Project
NAME: "OVERTIME OURS"
 
TYPE: 40' Pacemaker Cabincruiser
 
BUILT: Pacemaker Yachts, New Jersey, 1969.
 
PROJECT: Remove entire bottom of vessel from waterline down. Build and install 60 new laminated ribs (sistered) 50 new planks and 5 floor timbres. Clean and treat good original planking and re-install with silicone bronze screws. Remove and replace transom, transom framework, forward decks, port forward superstructure, forward lockers, rubrails, splashrails and re-build flying bridge. Completely refinish exterior of vessel.
Hull planking is being removed revealing all the broken and deteriorated ribs.
An aft port close-up of the new laminated sistered ribs.
Same view as previous photograph showing the finished product prior to launch.
View of the starboard side amidships. Several planks in this area have been removed and some deck repairs are being made.
Same view as previous photograph showing this area completed, along with hardware installed.
A new inner transom of marine plywood is installed with solid mahogany planking fastened overtop.
The new transom is varnished with 7 coats of Epifanes varnish prior to the name being painted on.
Vessel is leaving Woodwind Yachts after her re-build and is being transported to Lake Simcoe, Ontario for her launch.

Woodwind Yachts
3986 HWY. 7A, Nestleton, Ontario, Canada L0B 1L0
TEL (905) 986-9663 FAX (905) 986-1345

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