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111206 - Sanya repairs (47 images)

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  • At the foreground (cover in plastic) a new laminated stringer while boatbuilders are trimming the edges of the new part of the hull in the forward section of the boat.

  • The replaced section of the hull had to go beyond the first watertight bulkhead (seen in the middle). The black section of the hull is replaced.

  • The replaced section of the hull had to go beyond the first watertight bulkhead (seen in the middle). The black section of the hull is replaced.

  • Improvised shelter with a few containers and a tarp.<br /> The plastic is to protect the boat agains the spray of painting since they are about to spray the repaired part of the hull.

  • The white part on both sides of the hull is completely new

  • Spray-guns ready to apply 36 different colors….

  • Old hull material. You can still see the severe damage

  • Old hull material. You can still see the severe damage

  • wet-sanding a daggerboard

  • Checking saftey-gear

  • Checking saftey-gear

  • Work in the sail-loft

  • The whole white part of the hull (this side and the other side) is replaced and should be sprayed with 36 six different colors, fading from orange to light green.

  • The whole white part of the hull is replaced and should be sprayed with 36 six different colors, fading from orange to light green.

  • Some of the colors which get sprayed on the repaired part of the hull

  • The first color is applied to the repaired hull of Sanya Lan

  • The first color is applied to the repaired hull of Sanya Lan

  • Specialized painters (Ian Lovering's Ashdown Marine team) working hard to get some color on the repaired hull.

  • And yet another shade of orange ….

  • The improvised workshop where Sanya Lan is repaired

  • Sanya Lan in her high-cradle ready to fit the keel

  • 36 colors sprayed (orange fading to green) on the repaired hull

  • the keel is lifted in place with 4 jacks

  • the pivot-point of the keel

  • pivot-point of the keel

  • sewing machines in the sailloft

  • the new paintjob really shines

  • fitting the keel

  • pivot-point of the keel

  • riggers working on the mast

  • rigger Robin Hilton and sailer Teng Jiang He (Tiger) are making final preparation on the mast of Team Sanya in a rainy Cape Town

  • filling up the gab between hull and keel

  • Sany Lan ready to be lifted of her cradle into the water

  • and we have lift-off ….

  • free in the air

  • easy going ...

  • Bert Schandevyl looks a bit worried

  • Bert Schandevyl looks a bit worried

  • Also Moose looks not happy yet. Moments later he tells the press how relieved he is en how proud on the whole team for their huge effort.

  • The bulb is wet yet

  • almost there

  • almost there

  • Bert Schandevyl is happy the boot is in the water save and sound

  • Shore manager Nick Bice

  • Bert Schandevyl

  • work on the running rigging at the bow

  • finaly in the water