Your Seawind 1600 has been completed, and is all wrapped up. A quick tour of the boat can be viewed via this Youtube video. Meerkat is going to be loaded on the vessel today and will head to Vancouver, Canada.
It has been a pleasure building this boat for you and on behalf of the entire team at Seawind Catamarans we wish you many years of fun filled enjoyment aboard your new Seawind 1600.
Fair winds and following seas,
Tremendous progress has been achieved in the past month.
Interior: all tanks installation has been completed. Kitchen is almost done with all shelves, bench top, utilities installed. Electrical panel and Navigation desk are 100% done. Bed bases are completed including interior furniture. We are working on final detailing of bathrooms and running of electrical wiring.
Exterior: we have made quite a progress with the completion of starboard hull detailing, cockpit detailing, through holes and life raft access.
Engineering: watermaker supports, holding tanks, water tanks, fuel tanks, pre-fit stanchions, and galley kick are now completed.
The boat has been progressed smoothly with many jobs completed or more than half done.
Exterior work: the installations of transom winches/clutches, transom rub rails and end caps, hatches and windows, compasses, and dinghy davits are 100% completed.
We are currently working on the helm instrument panel, centre boards, targa top, rudders, and antifoul.
Interior: the sliding window and hull side window panels are all in. Roof liners are well underway in all 3 cabins.
Furniture is being fitted in the galley and lounge areas with 80% done. Wardrobe, vanity desk and bathroom vanity are being built. Port and starboard heads are detailed to almost completion.
Plumbing works are almost done including waste plumbing and hot water system. Fresh water system and bathroom plumbing are 80% completed.
Engineering: the installations of exhaust, water maker, battery chargers, fuel system, port and starboard engines are 100% completed.
We are still working on other electrical components, C-zone, steering system, pumps and fuel systems.
Timber furniture is getting ready so they can be installed at fitout 2 stage
Cockpit gelcoat detailing work is now done, flooring is sanded ready for flexiteak. Cockpit hardware installation is underway.
Forward deck flooring is also sanded ready for flexiteak installation. Deck hatches are detailing.
Saloon: Galley kick base is 50% completed. Saloon floor is sanded and faired ready for flooring is installed.
Cabins: Windows liner are being installed. Bed bases are installed.
Gelocat detailing work for both bathroom is underway
Longeron is being joined today
View from the bow and the stern
INTERIOR
Port water tank installation is 100% done.
Windows liner on both sides are 50% done
Fiberglass windows panels are 100% done
Thru bulkhead access for heater and aircon is 80% done
Next week we will prepare head liner blocks, make provision for wiring harness and under bunk panels.
EXTERIOR
Cockpit gelcoat detailing in cockpit is 70% complete
Hull windows preparation is 100% done
Saloon windows preparation step is done, ready for installing windows.
Deck hatches dry-fitted – 50% complete
Production has now started on the Seawind 1600 deck with the molds having just been sprayed in their first layers of gelcoat and our lamination department gearing up to begin adding the first layers of fiberglass reinforcement. The following weeks will involve the bagging or infusion of all major composite components in the Seawind lamination factory (Stage 1).
In the hull, the lamination department will also go on to install major structural internal bulkheads and stringers insuring the hull is properly reinforced before being demolded and moving on to Stage 2 of production.
