Cheap Transport

Polyurethane undercoats, you can see the old yellow gelcoat in the gas locker, which will be painted at a later date.

First undercoat on hull

First undercoat😁

Not kidding about the layers of paint. The easiest way to get this off was actually using chisels🤣

Double bias added to floor and duck board

Frame epoxied in place (upside down in some photos)

Duck board frame support

Re-routing of exhaust outlet

Well, it's been a pretty full on 8 weeks since posting here last. After a full strip back of Cheap Transport, I found a few surprises including a delaminated cockpit floor and duck board. A majority of this appears to be from the teak being fastened through the glass with screws, allowing water to penetrate into the foam core. There's also evidence that some of the resin never bonded to the foam from the day she was built. The floor and duck board were cut/ ground out where required and have been re-glassed with several layers of 600gm double bias. I also built a frame and fitted this between

5 days into shed life and CT is now stripped of all deck gear, windows out, teak removed (was very worn and not salvageable) and ready for repairs.

Love the finishing Cam, HL looks great 👍

With the pole in the middle and the pink velour, maybe they were going for an 80s Showgirls type vibe?😅

I used the 417 (I think) west system filler - whichever is the cream coloured one. I stained the gaboon ply with a Feast Watson floor stain, mixed to a custom colour. Then masked out only leaving the grooves. Filled grooves with the epoxy 417 faring mix, followed by 3 coats of West System ultra clear epoxy on all sides/edges, and finished with 3 or 4 costs of a gloss polyurethane for UV stability. Probably overkill for the old girl but I love the look😁

Please don't mention the dreaded Laser Kiwi, it still haunts me🤣 good to know re the "non supporting" support post... out she goes!

New head liners, 3mm ply with marine vinyl.

Currently "comfortable" enough for the family, I have plans to rebuild the gallery and head/ bathroom at a later date. And will definitely be replacing the pink squabs shortly too🤢

If anyone, particularly 1020 association members can tell me the history of CT out would be appreciated. Judging by the battle scars under the poor paint job, she been raced fairly hard at some point (our sailed very poorly). I know she won the Nationals in '89 and '91, and the NZ Match racing championship in 1990. Would love to know more though.

Originally launched as Cheap Transport and later changed to Choice Transport, we bought CT in June 2021 in a pretty sorry state. As a family of 5, we'd looked at Lotus 9.2, Carpenter 29, and Y88s a this was to be out first boat, but quickly determined none of these options big enough for our growing family. Hence ending up with a 1020. I won't go into details re survey, mechanicals etc, let's just say I can now see why many looked and walked away😂 As a first time owner though, I didn't know any better, and as they say, I jumped in balls and all! We made a plan on day 1 that as a fami