Go ahead and install 25 Kg lead ingots under tanks and as many aft of the engine as will fit. LCG is directly below the forward end of the main deckhouse. Gardner engine shall be considered as 2 tonnes of ballast.

• Remove all stainless-steel deck fittings and replace with bronze. Anchor chafing plate – change to bronze or leave as stainless.
• Remove stainless steel chain plates, sand or bead blast and paint white. While chain plates are off caulkers can caulk behind where fittings previously obstructed. Reinforce turnbuckle termination holes as required.
• Modify main deckhouse. Raise overall height by 8” and insert 3 tempered glass side windows. Bronze surrounds and brass bars to protect.
• Raise the floor inside the deckhouse (above engine room) so that on-watch crew can sit and look out the windows.
• Move chart table to inside deckhouse.
• Removable hatch in floor to facilitate Gardner engine removal if required.
• Access steps leading into forward and aft cabins which will provide and extra cabin adjacent to the engine room.
• Access to the starboard side of the engine will be from a removable hatch in this cabin.
• Splitting the existing master stateroom into two cabins.
• Final bathroom configuration.
• Forward section accommodation layout.
• Anchor chain fall line to chain locker.

Mast and Rigging (in brief)

• Installation of large Antal winches each side of the mainmast for hoisting throat and peak halyards. Electric or hydraulic? Still in discussion.
• Spreader lengths will be increased. Actual amount to be determined.
• Replace existing main boom with new to increased diameter scantling.
• Build new main gaff in spruce.
• Build new top yard.