Greek Princess 245: 2015

Thursday, 10 December 2015

All finished ready for relaunch-4th Dec 2015

After a prolonged break in the weather I've managed to anti foul the boat. Now apart from a few small finishing bits (inside) Greek Princess is all back together and ready for relaunch. Our plan is to return to the water at the end of February 2016 ready for the season.

Greek Princess all ready for relaunch

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Leg back together - 2nd December 2015

Leg all back together, upper drive seal replaced and short yoke. New Water pump, trim hoses and manifold together with new decals.

New Decals On

Leg Finished

Monday, 23 November 2015

Annual Refit Well Under Way - 23rd Nov 2015

Our Alpha One Gen 2 Leg is all repaired following an upper drive shaft oil leak, New Drive Seal plus Yoke replaced and bearings pre-loaded by Dave Crawford Marine of Lymington, I replaced water pump and gaskets and reassembled. Leg is back on and tested all running sweetly. Today I cut back Blue and Lower White on the bottom hull and added new swish Decals/Logos as fitted on the newer 245's to give Greek Princess a bit of a face lift.

She's looking great now, just need to polish hull and 1st coat anti-foul before it gets too much colder...6 degrees daytime temperature today so need to get this done.

NEW 2009/14 Style Bayliner 245 Decals Added

Lower hull cut back ready for polish

Friday, 30 October 2015

Another Season Comes to an End - 30th Oct 2015

Its that time again to lift, clean off and service the drive, haven't made it out since August due to work load, which is good ... but its been crazy busy every weekend. Greek Princess looking cleaner than normal which should make the cleanup a bit easier

Settled for a few months, ready for some TLC

GP being brought ashore

GP needs a good jet off

Leg Jetted Off

All cleaned ready for its service

Sunday, 23 August 2015

ECA Bembridge Rally - August 21st-23rd

We headed to Bembridge IOW, with the sun out and temperature in the high twenties it was looking good for the Club BBQ.

We're off to Bembridge

The Skippers Happy

Eastney Cruising Association Moorings

Monday, 17 August 2015

Summer Holiday East Cowes-Days 9-12

At the last part of the Holiday we moved to East Cowes as I had to do some images for the Marina in connection with Cowes Week. The weather had not been great and it was predicting heavy rain Thursday, Friday & Saturday so we headed for home on The Wednesday.