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REFIT: Emerald Harbor
In the black cap, Scott
Allen, the owner of
Epoch, a Nordhavn 47
(14.33m) at EHM for
refit, and Pablo Ramirez,
one of the painters at
Pacific Fiberglass,
inspect a paint job on
the outside door that
leads from the galley to
the aft deck.
Schildwachter and
to the end,” Schildwachter explained,
but not Allen and Nicholson. They
were all in.
In December 2017, Epoch moved to
He found Epoch in Port Orchard,
his outfit were recommended
as specialists
for the upgrades Allen
had in mind, and he
Washington. She is hull No. 17, powered
by a 174-hp Lugger diesel with a
3.96-to-1.00 reduction-gear ratio and
a 40-hp Yanmar wing engine. The
hour meter stood at 3,131, not all that
much, given that the boat was built in
2004, by South Coast Marine in Xiamen,
China.
The pre-purchase survey uncovered
landed the job, which would run well
into six figures, Allen said, “because
Larry came to Anacortes to look at the
boat and talk about philosophy. We
had good chemistry”—the operational
term here—essential but hard to
define.
only wear and tear associated with previous
use in temperate waters and the
age of the boat: corroded metal parts,
deteriorated rubber hoses, a dripping
shaftlog on the wing engine, oil in the
bilge from a leaky hydraulic pump,
aged gelcoat, areas of elevated moisture
in the deck laminate, a cracked
transom door, worn brushes in the
bow thruster’s electric motor, missing
and malfunctioning GFCI-protected
receptacles, and four of five reversecycle
air-conditioning units that did
not work as designed. “Overall, the
boat would be considered to be in
average condition for this model year,”
the survey concluded, estimating fair
market value at $650,000.
The survey’s list of recommendaA
sked
how he knows when to invite
a willing owner to participate,
Schild wachter said he decides case by
case. It’s a bit like a job interview that
goes both ways, covering a wide range
of topics that go beyond refit work to
find essential compatibilities. “Many
[interested customers] underestimate
how much time and commitment it
takes to stick with the job all the way
Seattle, where Allen and Nicholson
took up residence in their RV outside
Schildwachter’s office at Elliott Bay
Marina. In the course of the refit,
Epoch was also hauled out at Pacific
Fiberglass, where crews ripped out the
old to get ready for the new. While
Lambeth’s guys were addressing the
moisture problems in the deck laminate,
the cracked transom door, the
faded gelcoat, and taking off the exterior
doors to be stripped, primed, and
repainted, EHM focused on stabilizers,
keel coolers, and the bow thruster.
The new hot-water system (which was
installed before the haulout) includes
an OL60 Olympia Boiler 60,000-Btu
hydronic heater 120/12V, an Everhot
W001-106 Marine 6-gal (22.7-l)-perminute
tankless on-demand water
heater, and a Torrid MVS 20 IX 20-gal
(75.7-l) water heater. The heater system
that augments the reverse-cycle
AC units consists of a REAL Heat
845X-LP 12V 9,700/14,000-Btu marine
hydronic combo heater, and four Real
marine hydronic fan heaters with 3" or
4" (7.62cm or 10.16cm) outlets and
capacities ranging from 5,300 Btu to
19,250 Btu, plus assorted fittings,
fasteners, controllers, valves, and
tions itemized the must-haves, adding
the nice-to-haves, like hydronic heat for
voyaging in high latitudes, hot-air
vents in the wheelhouse to defog the
windshield windows and on the galley
floor to keep the cook happy, and
upgrading electronics that still worked
but had aged out of technical support
from vendors and manufacturers.
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The yacht’s running gear was overhauled and the zincs replaced. Barnacles were
removed from the folding prop of the wing engine (foreground) and the four-blade
propeller of the main drive, which were then treated with Propspeed, a foul-release
coating system.
DiEtEr LoibnEr
Scott ALLEn
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