Vessel: Kanter 54

Name: Orion’s Light
Owner: Jim & Mia S.
Hailing Port: Chicago

After having this boat built and spending several years aboard, the owners asked Great Island to do a major refit, resolving issues and further customizing the vessel to meet their personal specifications. The goal was prepare the boat for a new routine, sailing her south each winter, but a significant part of the refit also included a highly involved refinishing process to restore and preserve the boat’s aluminum decks and house.

Work Scope:

• Refinish aluminum decks, house & bottom – media blast, prime, protect
• Awlgrip paint deck, house & non-skid
• Remove, replace & isolate all hatches and hardware – separating dissimilar metals w/ Delrin pads to prevent corrosion
• Modify rigid dodger – fabricate rain shield to redirect runoff away from cockpit companionway
• Polish hull – restore original aluminum luster
• Wire boom for cockpit lighting
• Fabricate teak grate for base of ice box
• Spec & splice all new running rigging
• Repair bent foils on furler
• Replace gooseneck, boom track, and mandrel mast track
• Service windlass
• Inspect steering system
• Replace teak decking in cockpit
• Replace & replumb cockpit drains
• Build an adjustable dinette table
• Fabricate entertainment center & nav station bookshelf
• Replace fixed windows
• Spec & wire a bank of Firefly microcell carbon foam batteries
• Install USB ports
• Upgrade stereo components & add speaker zones
• Spec & install hardtop solar array
• Add Sound Down around engine compartment & cockpit hatch 
• Interior carpentry – customize built-ins, shelves, drawers & step-ups to owner specifications
• Fabricate cherry fiddles for galley counter
• Repair veneers around portlights
• Varnish interior
• Rebuild saltwater washdown pump
• Service seacocks
• Service engine, Aqua Drive & running gear
• Service heating system
• Replace two heads & holding tank sensors
• Rebuild macerator pumps
• New cockpit & interior cushions
• Replace Tender