Lots to do including basic deep locker cleaning. Started in the fall of 2017 (when I bought the boat) replacing the original CQR anchor.
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2017 Purchase Upgrades

Anchor - Replaced original CQR for a Rocna ​
Cockpit Grating - Removed! 
​Substantial two-piece varnished grate blocked both aft drains, trapped debris and was very slippery - a hazard.​

2019 Season Upgrades 

​New Radio
Standard VHF radio with AIS
New Throttle
Seastar Dual Action Throttle/Gear Mechanism Replacement
Asymmetrical Spinnaker 
​Used
Autopilot
Pelagic Autopilot with controller. Arm and motor unit sit on the starboard locker hatch. Electronics are located in starboard locker with controls on starboard cockpit bulkhead. 
Chainplate Replacements -
​Lowers, Uppers & Backstay replaced after 53 years! Never inspected with. one cracked and another with sheared bolt. Replaced lowers with straight plate - no welded bracket. Uppers now have improved plate design (my own) using Spartan deck fitting with bronze bolts. Backstay has larger bracket bolted to stern bracing with old chainplate glassed in place and exposed tang cut off, New uses  "Spartan" deck plate and all chainplates are now inspectable. 

2020 Season Upgrades

Boom Support & Vang
Boomkicker 1500 with vang. Lewmar vang elements purchased separately from Defender and were much cheaper than a prebuilt kit. No topping lift required but have avail to use as needed.  
Cabin Heater
Wallas 30GB Diesel Heater in starboard cockpit locker - exhaust to stern. Controls above reefer locker and vents for heat  above starboard bunk and next to ladder. Air intake from aft deck vent and aft locker. Unit mounted on board secured to aft bulkhead with a hull fixed shim. Diesel fuel from small plastic tank in locker below the stove.
Locker and interior hull painting Paint accessible "pink" hull areas and lockers in the main cabin + cockpit grey. Photo shows original color. Work included cleaning out 50 year old grime. 
Replacement Blocks Replaced HUGE main sheet and spinnaker halyard blocks with smaller - improving performance and remove binding with  spin furler.

2022 Season Upgrades

​New Electrical Panel Old vs. New
 Picture
Harken Roller Furler - Replaced 30 year-old original 
New Standing Rigging - Wire
​New Main - Loose Footed & no Dutchman
Lifelines - Replaced with Dyneema & Colligo fittings
​Masthead light bracket -Replacement
​Retractable Gennaker Boom - Selden 

​2024 Season Upgrades ​

1. New electric bilge pump 
2. Replace all cockpit drain hoses - especially dangerous multiple appendage systems - all with discharge below waterline.
     a. Cockpit drain
     b. Manual Bilge Pump
     c. Electric Bilge Pump
3. Remove four below WL thru hulls &.redirect to two new above WL 
4. Add gray water tank with pump for sink   
5. New seawater strainer
6. Replace Harken traveler car with Harken Mid-Range Traveler Car - centralizing main with traveler sheeting
7. New dodger (spray hood) over companionway
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​Now only two thru hulls
1. Engine intake 
2. Head sink drain

2018 Season Upgrades

Mast Halyard Sheaves
​Sheaves (unit) on Luders 33 masts vary over the years. CROW's (Hull #10) is to the right with 3 Aluminum plates, 2 sheaves and 6 plastic “washers."
Primary binding issues: 
     1. Rope halyard oversized! 
Rope halyard should be <  3/8” but  was 7/16” causing excess friction. 
     2. Masthead flag staff screws too long & pressed against outer aluminum plate adding to friction issue.
      3. The "washers" were thin  plastic so replaced with larger dia. Delrin.
Head Corner Bracket
The Luders 33 with deck stepped mast is supported in compression by the 2" thick corner head walls (to hull), joined by an aluminum bracket. Corner "Bracket" exposed to head "splash," shower water (when used) and mast leakage if not sealed properly resulting in severe corrosion. New bracket is sealed with paint. 
The HEAD
New AirHead Composting Toilet. All of the old plumbing, incl., holding tank and toilet removed! ​Venting is  now attached to ceiling using the port dorade for ventilation. Dorade faces aft only for air flow with electric fan attached to main battery. 
Cabin Bunks
Stripped white vinyl, cleaned & painted.
Spreader Lights
LED Replacement on the left but eventually removed  - adding a combined Steaming/Foredeck light on mast centerline.
Main Hatch Door Panel
​Single StarBoard panel with wood panels (3 pcs) when not using lovely 3-piece wood set used for offshore.
New Prop 
​Smaller 12" in the small aperture. 
14" too large for aperture with more cavitation and same boat speed.

2021 Season Upgrades 

​Cockpit Lockers - Removed leg cutting latches.
​Will modify with internal securing system to main cabin  
Unneeded Deck Fittings 
​Removed foredeck and "gas" cockpit fittings - filling holes with glassed poly resin and matt. Painted with nonskid paint (TotalBoat)

2023 Season Upgrades 

New Top Down Spinnaker Furler by Colligo
Replace fixed portlight glass -​Plexiglass
Rocna Anchor -
​Replaced Rocna (hooped) with  Rocna Vulcan
​EasySea Flipper Winch Handles - Collapsible

2025 Season Upgrades ​

1. Hard Top for Spray Hood using StarBoard
​2. New Genoa
​3. Rack for Paddleboard on stanchions (added fall 2024)
​4. Remove vent on aft hatch 
​5. New dyneema inner forestay and running backs (made by Colligo) for Solent sail.- replacing wire that came with the boat. 

2026 Season Upgrades/Projects​

​CROW Work 2025-2026 for 60th Birthday!
1.   Repair hull dings and transom crack repair
2.   Full hull repaint
3.   Strip & revarnish toe rail & cockpit
4.   New Gold Cove Stripe
5.   New Name and Hailing Port
6.   New stuffing box, cutless bearing and shaft/coupler
7.   Mast Rewire
8.   New Portlight “glass” - tinted safety glass
9.   Revarnish cabin sole
10,  Rewiring for New Tricolor, DC plugs (incl. for new Reefer) and ORCA Core (Nav equipment)
11.  Replace main cabin bookcase wood shelf and wood backboards (painted white)
12.  Tear out old icebox liner and rebuild
     a. Shelf for portable Reefer
     b. New countertop
     c.  Nav Station vs. Icebox space
13.  New larger solar panel 
14.  Fill excess holes in mast
15.  Remove 2 bronze winches and sail track on boom (fill holes) + repaint. Lightens boom by ~7+ lbs.
16.  Bottom Paint (annual thing() but now using water based Aqua One
17. Spray Hood canvas/glass for hardtop companionway (in work)
18. ORCA & AIS Transponder/Display
19. Fill hole from Stove stack removal in cabintop
20. KATO Davits
 Plus other general stuff....