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new wooden caulk strips of soft wood new stern new planks around the keel-dead-wood
new stainless steel 316 frames

Restauration 

Deck 1996
Hull 1999-2002
 		 keel-dead-wood planks new stainless steel A4 nails and bolts
trevira epoxysheet, connection of lead keel
extra impregnating with epoxy of trevira sheet
 new stern and epoxy priming the hull
 
 
Restoration of the sailing yacht Helen.
 
In 1993 we became the proud owners of Helen.
We decided to restore here in a quality better then new to last for another sixty years at least.
In 1996, after some years of pleasant sailing, we knew the ship and started a total refit.
First we renewed the whole deck structure and everything which support the rigging.
A totally new teak deck was layed upon new waterproof mulitplex.

Stainless steel support plates for the rigging where layed under the deck, which was a replacement of the original steel (rusted) plates.

In 1999 we bought a new foresail, Jib 1, tri-radiaal and a furling.

Between 1999 and 2002 we started the second stage of our restoration project.

We renewed the lower planks around the keel dead wood (sand planks). These are standard a little bit thicker and stronger then the normal hull planks.

The wood was good, but because of a mistake during here building in 1935 there was to much bolt rot. Copper fittings were used on steel frames inside. (Maybe such a lovely vessel was not designed to last more then 100 years)

For more then 90%, all steel supports between keel dead wood and the hull where renewed by 316 stainless steel.

The idea was to cover the hull with epoxy sheet, but only then when there was a 100% new and stronger vessel then the original under the epoxy sheet.

After this thorough restoration of the hull construction we sheeted here with epoxy. And Trevira was used as a sheet. Trevira is used for strong hulls, where you want to apply a lot of epoxy. Trevira feels and works similar to felt.

In the winter we recaulked the deck with Formflex, which is much better then Sicaflex in the subtropics.

We also installed a new engine and gave the nice Volvo two cylinder as a present to a fisherman.

The new engine is really silent. It is a 4 cylinder Lombardini 1204 22 kW (30 Pk). Inter-cooling.

All stainless steel water-tanks got an extra epoxy sheet as reinforcement.

We renewed the whole kitchen interior

And besides the two beds in the aft and the beds in the salon, we made a full king-size bed in the fo'c’s'le, a nice separate sleeping place for two persons..

The toilet/bathroom was upgraded and we made a new shower and shower tank under the floor. That tank is emptied by the same electrical pump of the toilet.