From a distance, she looks pretty good. The hull is oxidized and needs paint, but is generally in good condition beyond cosmetics. The rudder is original (mahogany) and in good condition.
She has a short bowsprit, made from painted wood and featuring a bobstay running to the cutwater. The headstay fitting is located near the top of the sprit.
The decks are in fair condition without any excessive crazing or cracking. I haven't done enough of an inspection to determine the core condition, but walking around she seems relatively solid.
She has original top-opening locker lids in the cockpit. This places the hull number somewhere after #158 (which has "death lockers").
She has the single dog, 4-screw bronze opening ports, and bronze deadlight frames.
Here's how the interior looked when I opened her up.
Since I couldn't even walk around inside, obviously the first order of business was to clean out all the gear. I removed everything from the interior and the lockers, and then I threw or carried everything to the ground, and then sorted it into piles, separating the garbage.
All the gear:
The pile of dumpster-bound junk:
A person needs to know what's in the various containers being thrown, or in this case, dropped to the ground. Oops.
With the gear removed, I could get a good look at the cabin. There was plenty of mildew and peeling paint, thanks to the excessive moisture trapped inside by lack of ventilation during storage, but I've seen worse. The interior features many custom features and cabinets added by her long-time owner, including a different galley and nav station, settee berth that runs into the head hanging locker, and a Cole Stove in the salon.
The head features an additional cabinet to port, above the toilet, and a sink and vanity to starboard.
The v-berth is modified with a storage locker aft to port and a single berth running forward of the new locker along the port side. The starboard side is unchanged,
The cabin sole is the usual thing. The bilge is full of water. The manual pump on board works, but is highly anoying to use because the plywood to which it is screwed in the cockpit locker is loose and bangs incessantly when the pump is operated. It also has a short discharge hose that barely reaches over the side and is virtually unusuable by one person alone. I pumped maybe 20 strokes and quit in disgust. I'll dig my portable electric pump out of storage and finish it off.
She has a Universal 2-cylinder diesel engine, age unknown. I'd guess early '80s vintage. The engine has been painted at some point in the distant past.
I didn't really look at the rigging. She has an old CDI furler with bent and broken aluminum extrusion (trash). The spars look fine, if weathered. There are 4 sails, at least a couple of which look quite serviceable. The mainsail has the 3-prong Triton logo. Later I'll pull the sail out of the bag for folding and will report if I see a hull number on the sail.
That's it for now!
