Akuna

Adams 35' moored at RMYS, Melbourne Australia. This 1985 steel cruiser/racer has done a number of offshore races in her early days but unfortunately in recent times has been left unused quite a bit. This is all changing now, enjoy

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15 October 2009 | 240 miles North East of New Zealand
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13 October 2009 | Almost half way
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10 October 2009 | Half way to Minerva Reef
09 October 2009 | Tonga
08 October 2009 | Nuku'Alofa - Big Mama's Yacht Club
07 October 2009 | Nuku'Alofa
07 October 2009 | Melbourne airport
04 October 2009 | Home

The maintenance continues

30 December 2009 | RMYS
Mark Whitehouse
Well the maintenance continues, we have had the most incredible bad luck with the weather it has either been raining or to hot to paint. We have lost so many days due to weather but there is not much that can be done about that. The boat has steadily been looking worse and worse as we have been removing fittings, windows, grinding small rust patches removing interior panels to get the fittings off. I just hope we can remember where everything goes as we put the pieces back on.

Finally yesterday we started preparing to put fitting back on, the boat has had all the rust patches cut out, treated, primed and painted, we have made all new rubber seals and will over the next week put everything back on the boat. You can see just from the small patches we have painted how nice the Akuna will look when the decks are all completed.

We are also doing a lot of work on the electrics and instruments and we have sourced new Raymarine instruments and a new radio. These will be going in soon. We have replaced nav lights with LED lights. All in all things are starting to look better. We now hope to be in the water by the end of January, lets keep our finger crossed.
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Vessel Name: Akuna
Vessel Make/Model: Adams 35
Hailing Port: RMYS - Melbourne, Australia
Crew: Mark, Jacqui and Gavin
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Our boat and the folks that have sailed on her
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Created 4 October 2009