Posted by GregSeaHawk on
URL: https://forum.seahawk17.org.uk/Michael-Hood-Pippin-120-tp4025366p4025367.html

Hi Michael,

Great to have you aboard and to read that Pippin has a new owner.

You should find you now have full "member" status and can post in much more of the forum.

Pippin was one of the first boats I learnt about when starting the site in 2004. You can see how her cabin looked then at:
https://www.seahawk17.org.uk/owners-custom-cabin-cabins.php#pippin
Back then, I recall she was based in Hertfordshire.

By 2013 she'd had most of the cabin fittings stripped out.



But she still had the bold colour scheme of the first owner I heard from:


That image comes from a subsequent owner who I recall had based her on the River Trent.

By 2018 it seems she'd been taken back to her gel coat and painted in original colours, but the cabin was looking as grubby as I'd ever seen it.

It was sad to read of the leak issue but she is an early boat that will have the unsealed ballast that does seem prone to such issues.

It would be great to hear if you manage to open her keel up again and cure the real problem rather than have to live with a solution that affects her performance so.