I will give a little introduction to my boat. She is a 1973 Midship, her previous name was Chibbi Moon which has been changed to XTA-SEA.
She has a Viri7 motor and is slooped rigged.

Some of the things I plan on doing are.

1. Making all the compartments water tight and replace the wooden cover boards with water tight hatchs.

2. beefing up all the rigging by one size along with the lifelines.

3. Mounting a lader on the transom.

4. Installing a permant head and removing the temp. Also putting in a shower, all in the aft cabin. (any ideas on where to put a holding tank?)

5. Putting in a full stove with oven and propane tanks. (still trying to figure a good place to put them so any suggestions welcome)

6. Install new VHF.

7. Want to also build a custom low power consumption computer system with touch screen and has GPS/MP3/DVD and other sailing utilities will also mount a cam to the top of the mast hooked to it. Not sure where I will be pointing it though.

8. Replace all the wood with some kind of plexy or lexan or some other type of plastic.

9. Run new wiring up the mast for lights and vhf.

10. Replace all lighting inside and out with LED lights.


A few other things I want to do but are low on the list are.

Windlass.
SSB or Sat fone.
propane heater.
full instrament system. (wind, speed, depth)

Today I striped almost all the wood paneling inside and am still working on takening everything out I could I removed the table and all wood inside forward cabin.

I will be replaceing it probably with something else.

Need to build some new shelfing and cabinets.

Looks like ill have to reinforce the fiberglass around the sink and cooler.

Ill try to get some pictures of the mess I am makeing tomorow

Also removed the Fish Finder and OOOOLLLLLDDD depth meter.
Going to put in one of those forward scanning sonars and probably the st60 package.

Just moved from florida to califonia. It was a looong drive. Pulled the boat with a 91 dodge van ram 150. She pulled along beautifly:)

Wow.  They cut that up good.  Did you have a wood cabinet with a sink between the berths and against the aft bulkhead?  Looks like you have the plumbing for it.

Dan Underwood
1977 Dawson 26, Hull #264
"DOVE"
Buzzards Bay, MA

Well finaly started working on her again. Today I pretty much striped the engine and cleaned it up. Seems to be working a little bit better now. I am going to try and reduce the wireing but trying to figure it all out. Theres like 35-40 wires going in but only see 5 connected to the motor so going to try and untangle it and see why theres so many extra.

Also put 2 of the 3 aft cabin windows back in and sealed.

Redid the cockpit drain pipeing a bit to make it more efficiant.

Good Luck on your renovations.  We just bought a Midship 1973.  And starting renovations as well.  Needs some help removing the bottom rudder bracket hinge that's screwed to the hull.  Do you know if it is bolted through to interior nuts or threaded into the hull itself?  Any suggestions?   Also want to get keel retraction working again.  Apparently cable needs to be restrung?  Any experience, ideas?

Thanks,

RobE