CC Hull Number 40644 State Registration WN 2966 LH VHF Call Sign WUT 4323
Initial Restoration
Maranee as she appeared in 1988 at her pre-sale survey. She was painted beige on her cabinsides, pea green on top and was flying green garbage bags from her mast rigging to keep marina-dwelling birds away.
"Are we done yet?" Note the plywood inserts along the sundeck have been removed, in anticipation of the installation of proper canvas wind curtains.
No time is wasted in removing the first layer of paint from Maranee's cabinsides. A dismal Seattle winter is rearing its ugly head, as seen in this photo from late 1988.
Slowly but surely, progress is being made. We removed four layers of paint on the cabinsides: beige, gray, yellow and white. Here Maranee sits again at the Salmon Bay work dock with her port side partially stripped and cabintop primed for painting.
One of the problems we encountered was spending time under the roof of the marina, stripping layers of paint away in partial darkness at times. As a result, when Maranee was taken to the work dock, the bright sunshine showed that stubborn paint was deep into the grain of the wood, meaning more work than what we had thought. Here, Maranee sits at the work dock with her port side stripped in the winter of 1989.
The next step now was to stain the mahogany cabinsides, which are seen here as being successfully stripped of the layers of paint which had penetrated the wood's grain. The deadline we had set for ourselves was the middle of June of 1989, the time of the Classic Yacht Association's Rendezvous by Land, Sea and Air in Port Ludlow, Washington. When this photo was taken, it had become springtime in Seattle, leaving only a few months to complete the task at hand.
Maranee departing for her "maiden voyage" under our ownership to Port Ludlow for the Land, Sea & Air Rendezvous with her refinished superstructure, white cabintop, and wind curtains, June, 1989.
July, 1989: Work begins under the waterline at Maranee's first haul out under our ownership.
Maranee is treated to new hull and bottom paint, and her boot stripe is changed from dark blue to red, widened by an inch. In this photo taken in 1991, a new shaft is installed on her port side. Two years later her starboard shaft is replaced as well.