For the last five years we have been building a Christian Health Mission Ship in Phuket, Thailand. The ship will be equipped with a mother and child health clinic, including appropriate trained staff and technology, and will be able to have access to remote islands, and inlets that are otherwise difficult to reach by land. The vision is that it will be a means to reach isolated communities, be an outlet for the gospel, and provide basic services including Health Promotion.

What Needs to be Done

Here are the immediate concerns facing the project:

Water-tight doors and hatches.
Make plaques
St fairleads
Make bunk sliders
***Get steel from Surathani
***Check teak from Surathani
***Order Whitlock Steering gear or quadrant gear, see fishing boat
***Find best insulation – PU foam?
*Water and fuel pipe caps
*Strengthen main-mast support in bilge
*Make oil filler in for’ard ballast plate
*Change position of for’ard port chain conduit
*For’ard: B/H door lock
*Hang DH doors and locks
*Sand clinic
*Install insulation.
*Fit takien tong battens
*Glue sole battens to flange rubber.
*Fit 4″ blue PVC ducting
*Aft hatch
*Sand poop
*Poop hull filler
*Sikaflex
*Wash-down poop
*Paint poop with Jotamastic 3 coats
*Paint bilge with Penguard white
*Ply bilge lining
*Install insulation.
ER ventilation
ER salt-water intakes
ER Keel – Make hatches
ER flanges + supports
ER deck plate + Al?
ER St st holders and rails
ER 300 litre fuel header tank
ER: Grind, clean, paint with Jotamastic 3 coats
Install insulation.
Paint fuel tanks – Jotamastic + Penguard white.
ER Keel – Paint 3 compartments with Tankguard
*Buy Gearbox?
*Install engine
Prop
Aft water tanks – stainless
E/R doors
Paint cockpit jotamastic and eggshell Hardtop 2 coats
For’ard:
Water tank supports
Cleats, air vents
Deck-lights.
Tank supports covered with rubber.
Aft:
*Fuel pipes
Wheel and Steering pedestal base
Poop and battery ventilation
Cockpit tabs/cleats for wooden seats and sole grating.
Steel deck fittings: cleats, fuel and water fillers, air vents.
Davit cleats
Battery floor ply+zinc or steel?
Water tank supports
Tank supports covered with rubber.
Bulwarks – doors – limber holes
DH deck fiddles
Paint DH with Jotamastic and eggshell Hardtop 5 coats
*Lexan windows
Fit rubber to doors and hatches.
Check all thru-hulls
Touch up below W/L
***Order stainless steel for aft water tanks.
*Make aft stainless steel water tanks and fit.
***Order stainless steel for for’ard water tanks.
*Make for’ard stainless steel water tanks and fit.
Survey
Order ply for sole and bulkheads
Cut sole mini-hatches and fit with aluminium trim.
Extra coat of resin to underside of sole ply.
Clean bilges
Paint bilges with insect-repellent paint
Resin to steel before fitting wooden firring pieces.
Resin to tangs before bulkheads.
Ply bulkheads 20mm.
Fix ply bilge shelving to freezer.
Fix ply bilge shelving to poop.
Resin to steel before rails
***Order teak
*Rail
Wooden Handrails
Plans for mast quote.
Plans for standing rigging quote.
Plumbing, galley, showers and heads.
Fresh water system.
Sea-water system to include high pressure fire system.
Heads.
Sea-water to fresh water conversion.
*Anchor winch
*Hydraulics – Pneumatics – main hatch – windlass – steering
*Whitlock Steering gear.
2 wheels – one hydraulic.
*Stick insulation to hull, deck-heads
Foc’sle ladder
For’ard:
*Fibre-glass Clinic module.
Fibre-glass Heads modules.
Fibre-glass Shower modules.
Fibre-glass Galley module.
Aft:
Fibre-glass Heads modules.
Fibre-glass Shower modules.
Fibre-glass Galley module.
Fibre-glass cockpit extension.
Fibre-glass grey water tanks.
Cabins and fittings.
(Louvre-air-con?) doors – teak or plastic?
*Install generator
*Electrics.
*Air-con
Stainless handrails
Prepare decks
Plastic to decks
Poop stanchions
Paint port topsides white Hardtop 3 coats

What You Can Do to Help

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Thank you for your interest, and God Bless.