Thursday, 1 November 2012

Casteele's New Paint and New Rig

The rig was professionally replaced in 2012. 
  • NEW 10mm 1x19 Dyform (lowers caps and forestay) and 10mm 1x19 wire rigging with dual backstays
  • NEW chrome bronze turnbuckles (10)
  • NEW Isomat gooseneck and vang extrusions mounted on new RivNut fasteners
  • Isomat deck stepped anodized aluminum spar
  • Double spreaders
  • Isomat boom
  • Folding mast steps to first spreader
  • Schaefer 3100 Roller Furling on Genoa (2003)
  • Schaefer 2100 Roller Furling on Staysail (2003) with a NEW bearing race (2010)
  • NEW Amsteel running backstays tied to Dyneema handling line (2010)
  • Polished stainless steel genoa and staysail tracks
  • Custom polished stainless steel traveler bridge
  • Casteele was sandblasted to bare steel and completely repainted in 2012.  Please refer to post further into the blog for details of the work.

  • Altex 379 deck and topside paint over Altex 620 high build epoxy 
  • Altex Sea Barrier 3000 Anti foul over Altex 620 high build epoxy

4 comments:

  1. We loved your sailboat. We bought one! An unfinished Waterline 44'. We would love hearing from you. You can reach us at 514 792-0973. Luc & Sylvie :)

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  2. We loved your sailboat. We bought one! An unfinished Waterline 44'. We would love hearing from you. You can reach us at 514 792-0973. Luc & Sylvie :)

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  3. Hey there, Casteele crew, I tried to contact you before...I am working at an unfinished 46' steel NZ-Denis Ganley design that looks amazingly alike Casteele! Luc & Sylvie, would like to know about your progress. Please contact me by eqmar.net (our boat) We would love to hear from you! All the best, Pierre & Pierre Van de Casteele (believe it or not ;-)

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  4. Hi I bought the Waterline 4 off of Luc .unfortunately he hassed on .now I'm going to finish it im Ian at boatdoctortoronto@gmail.com. love to talk to you

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