Completed Work
The refit has proceeded much slower than anticipated and at times was at a standstill. This web page will be updated as progress is made.
Winter 2019/2020
The Mariner Yachts 36 was purchased in November 2019. The previous owner stored her in Falmouth, MA. She was moved from Falmouth and stored over the winter at North Side Marine near the entrance of Sesuit Harbor.
The winter was mild by New England standards but still below freezing much of the time. By mid-March the temperatures had risen a bit. At that point Covid-19 was impairing the ability to get much done.
Throughout spring and summer Massachusetts and some surrounding states were discouraging travel and in spring and early summer ordered non-essential businesses to curtail operations or close entirely due to the novel coronavirus outbreak and growing Covid-19 cases. This brought some of the work to a standstill. Even transporting the boat was delayed.
Most of my own work involved disassembly of systems that were going to be replaced. The original plumbing system was in unusable condition. After discovering the water tanks were full of algae and most lines clogged, the water tanks were removed, cleaned and reinstalled and the entire fresh water system removed. The electrical system was in similar bad shape and nearly all wiring was removed. The engine was disconnected from raw water hoses, fuel lines, and linkages in preparation for removal.
On January 22 the diesel was removed by Lukas Smith of Diesel Smiths in West Dennis. Later the prop shaft and shaft keys were sent to AccuTech in NH. It was bent and a replacement was fabricated. The prop, a classic Maxprop, was sent to PYI Inc and refurbished. The prop was in good shape keeping the refurbishing cost low. Two parts, the collar and nut have to be sent to AccuTech so they can cut the key slot, mount the collar, and drill a hole through the nut and shaft for a pin. By April this was temporarily at a dead stop due to the non-essential businesses curtailment related to covid.
Spring and Summer 2020
In early May the boat moved to Richardsons Marine for some work. The plan was to complete work by the end of May. This didn't go quickly as Kent got busy with bottom painting and preparing boats for launch, then some emergency repairs. The work was gradually completed and the price discounted due to patience. The Completed Fiberglass Work web page describes what got done.
Fall 2020
This new to me Mariner 36 arrived in my side yard at the end of August. The area where she was sitting on blocks and stands was formerly unpaved driveway and then used to store another boat. The ground is pea gravel packed in stone dust and so more than adequately hard to safely support a 17,000 lb vessel.
Kenrick Anthony sanded the exterior teak during the summer. Kenrick subcontracts to Kent and specializes in woodwork and refinishing, particularly varnish. Kenrick also removed the name and hailing port from the transom and wet sanded and buffed so a new name can be applied. Procrastinating on the selection of a new name has to end soon.
Kenrick was putting is a few days a week. Most of what I was doing during this time was in support of Kenrick. A new forward mast support was built to make it possible to move the heavy main mast without a crane and to provide access to the bowsprit. Some wood was removed to be repaired and then refinished. The bowsprit wood was eventually removed with minimal damage.
2021
Battery boxes were built in late 2020 (and painted in spring 2025). The bowsprit was disassembled but the wood work not completed. A lot of yard work got done in 2021 but not much boat work. The Maxprop was reinstalled in 2021. The fresh water pumps were installed and connected to the water tanks. Very little other work was completed.
2022
February of 2022 marked the completion of divorce paperwork which had been a big distraction in 2021. During 2022 some very nice mooring pendants were completed, a small landscape trailer was completed, a fair amount of tree work got done and wood got split, and I moved to Bangor Maine. Not much happened with the my Mariner 36, now renamed to Fully Charged, except to move her to Maine in November, 2022.
2023
The big event of 2023 was buying a house in Belfast in February and moving in. All of the boat stuff was moved from a storage unit to my new garage. A lot of work was done to the garage itself, building shelves for example. Boat work was put on the back burner with other things taking priority. These include yard work, building a new office, replacing decks and doing other work on the house.
2024
In 2024 work on the garage and in the house continued. Boat work was focused on the CP23. The early part of 2024 saw a lot of cross country skiing but little boat work. A lot of yard work got completed over the summer, deck work continued, and some remaining work on the CP23 leading to an eventual splash in very late summer. Finally some sailing happened in September and October. Then winter set in.
2025
Almost nothing was done to Fully Charged in 2021-2024. Not much has happened in winter 2025 except shoveling snow and a lot of cross country skiing. An ambitious yard landscape construction project got started in summer of 2025. An injury put me out for about 6-8 weeks. As a result no work was completed on the boat. Some planning and purchase of components was done in preparation to start the Battery and High Amperage Wiring work.