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Pearson 424 Upgrades

Here's a categorized list of links to the upgrade or refit projects of other Pearson 424s.

Cockpit and Companion ways

• Blacksheep's table and hinged companion way boards and rebuilt starbord companionway
• Hi Flite rebuilt the starboard deck companion way
• RA's binnacle rebuild
• Pelican's cockpit shower (scroll down to the end)
• Whoosh has addded some boards sealing her lazarettes from down flooding
• Bimini Dodger, Sail Covers
  • Sarah
  • Spirit
• Helm Seat
  • Spirit has a curved teak seat
    

Cabin Interior

• Replace starboard companionway\head bulkhead on Sarah
• Storage improvements
  • Hi Flite added shelves in the storage behind the salon settees
  • Shower locker, and baskets galore on Sarah
  • Pelican has added an additional hatch in the main salon
• Cabin sole
  • Black Sheep installed a new teak and holly sole
• Headliner
  • Regina Oceani's new white headliner (2nd pic on the right)
    • Hi Flite put in a new headliner which is 1/8" plywood with a textured vinyl wallper
• Hull Lining
  • Regina Oceani's ash battens in the berths (3rd and 4th row)
    • Quivera has ash battens in her aft cabin and v-berth, pis and installation details on the P424 site
• Insulation
  • Hi Flite use Reflectix(tm) under the headliner and hull lining 
• Lighting
  • Sarah's cabin lighting upgrade to alpenglow lights 
• Nav station 
  • Blacksheep has a full chair 
  • Harmony turned the upper shelf into an instrument panel, added panel above the hanging locker to mount instruments and a portlight where the old instrument panel was
  • Meridian converted the lower shelf to storage, the upper shelf to an instrument panel
  • Nav Station converted to a locker and the aft berth converted to contain the seat for a fwd facing nav station 
  • Sea Duty removed the aft swing out seat and put in an aft facing bench with internal storage, they also added a swing out table in front of the aft hanging locker
  • Revery has a folddown table but the stock swing out seat
• Portholes
  • Details on rebedding the galley porthole in  
    

Communications

• Whoosh's write-up on using a TNC and SSB (3rd article), Skype, ZipGet and Inmarsat Internet Access
• Sarah's AIS installaton
  

Electrical

• Battery
  • Relocating the house bank in front of the steering quandrant 
• Shore Power
  • Whoosh's instructions on using shore power in Europe 
• LED lights on the DC breakers aboard Pelican (Scroll)
  

Emergency Tiller

• Sarah's has added a block and tackle to her emergency tiller (scroll) to gain a mechanical advantage
  

Engine

• Blacksheep has a ton of re-power info, probably need to break these out more
• Sarah's new engine box,, complete with CAD drawings
• Fuel Polishing
  • Indulgence has a nice dual Racor filter setup 
    

Equipment lists

• Sarah 
  

Eyebrow Removal

• Hi Flite removed the stainless steel eyebrow whish was leaking and put on a stripe
  

Galley

• Blacksheep has a knife rack and an overhead cabinet
• Stove
  • Sarah installs a Force 10 stove 
• Refrigerator
  • Sarah installs a Sea Frost system 
    

Ground Tackle

• Anchor Locker
  • Spirit has her chain rode stored in the sewer
  • Aurora has a windlass mounted aft of the anchor locker but feed chain back into the locker
  • Meridian has a windlass mounted foreward of the locker and hawse pipe into the lower chain locker
  • Parallax has a windlass mounted aft of the locker, feeding down through the locker and into the lower locker. She also has an inner forestay chainplate which is interesting to note
  • Veritas modified the anchor locker door adding a platform for a large horizontal manual windlass in front of the locker
  • Ground Tackle on Sarah
    • Blacksheep has dual rollers and horizontal windlass mounted forward of the anchor locker
    • RA has a new teak bow roller platform with a horizontal windlass
      

Hatches

• Hi Flite has good photos of rebedding the hatches
• Sarah replaced her hatches with Lewmar Ocean series
  

Head 

• Hi Flite's new flooring under the toilet
• Sarah's Airhead(tm) composting toilet installation
• RA added a locker in the shower. (I thought this was standard)
• Pelican has added a large storage area in the shower stall (scroll down), this is a common modification, lots of area back there!
• Spirit has added brackets for storing scub tanks under the laundry hamper
  

Plumbing

• Thru-Hulls
  • Sarah got rid of some through hulls
• Bilge Pump
  • Sarah's bilge setup 
• Replacing the water tank hatches and vents on Pelican which fixes the leaks caused by both
  

Propeller

• Sarah's max-prop installation, propeller and shaft bearings, Stuffing Box,
  

Running Rigging

• New rail mounted Stanchions and Lifelines on Doris E
• Pelican has some new lifelines from Suncor Stainless
• Mizzen Sheet and Mizzen Backstays
  • Sarah moved the mizzen sheet outboard with a clam cleat that can be mounted to the rail as well as on-center and added Garhauer blocks for the backstays
• Mast Pulpits
  • Pelican's mast pulpit installation
• Traveler
  • RA refurbished the traveler risers and installed a new one 
• Main Mast
  • Sarah replaced hers and has CAD drawings to go with along with internal halyards, StrongTrack, Spartite, masthead tricolor
• Main Winches
  • Pelican has new Andersen 46ST winches(scroll) also talks about placement
• Splicing
  • Pelican has a nice write up about doing your own splices
    

Standing Rigging 

• Solent Stay
  • Whoosh's solent stay (1st article on the page) 
  • Sarah's has a similar if not the same installation
    

Swim Ladder

• Sarah moved her ladder to the beam because she has a windvane on the stern 
  

Workshop

• Vice Storage 
  • Spirit has a vice mounted in the aft hanger locker 
    

Wind Vane

• Whoosh has an autopilot controlling her wind vane as a backup (2nd article)
• Sarah has a Monitor Windvane (scroll down) good pics of the cockpit lines and moved her boarding ladder amidship