After a month in Key West, we finally thought we had a 48 hour crossing window to make it to Morgans Bluff. We were wrong...or rather, the forecasts continuously changed -- for the worse. Not unsafe, but just VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. This was not the Gulf Stream Crossing we had last year.

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*MARESIA* IS A SINGLE OWNER 1995 MONARO 27 SE/SX Professionally serviced with records since new by the same shop. Available is a mechanical referral letter, Summarizing the years of great care and preventative maintenance. Maximize your time on the water. Monaro boats are smooth and fun in both calm and choppy water. This one is fast with easy acceleration and planning at 2800rpm. Think terrific cruiser and superb weekend boat. Ideal for fishing. Joy ride or run up the coast with ease to Pender Harbour and beyond. Spend the day at Thormanby and back to the city in the same day. SO much to do and so many fun places to explore. Cruising is a JOY! With effortless hydraulic steering and tremendous visibility from the raised helm. Fully enclosed with heat and seating for four. Also, with a sterndrive angle indicator gauge and digital fuel flow gauge. Top speed is over 40 knots. Power is twin Volvo 5.7 GSi engines with 280hp each and 2212 hours. Matched with fully serviced Volvo duo prop sterndrives. Great compression numbers on file. Jan 2023 last haul out for zincs. Storage all over. Full of custom and useful additions. 7’0 of headroom in the cabin and close to 6’0 in the head! All systems are operational. Monaro boats do not hit the market often. Please call or email today to schedule a viewing.

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Screwhead teak plugs in 23 seconds!! Having just replaced around 1000 teak screw head plugs…this was the process.. Unscrew every exposed screw: I used a battery drill driver. Drill the hole deeper: I used a 10mm forstner bit as it fitted the existing holes perfectly and did a tidy job. This is subject to having enough teak left to drill deeper. Fortunately Najad were generous with their teak! Try not to drill as far as the fibreglass. Add sealant and replace the screws: I’ve seen videos where they say the screws were just for construction and you can leave them out. That is probably correct but I’m going for better safe than sorry. If the teak was thinner with no room to drill deeper and replace the screws I’d leave them out as a last chance of getting a few more years out of a worn deck. Sealant to stop any water getting into the deck core. I used a hand screwdriver rather than power to replace them as power was tending to rip out the self tapping screws from the fibreglass. Put glue on the plug: I used a polyurethane foaming wood glue. Epoxy would be very strong but mixing all the batches a big pain if you have lots to do. Try to get more glue on the edges than the base of the plug as I had a couple of plugs pushed out as the glue foamed up. Tap in the plug: I used a standard claw hammer as it’s all I had but I daresay a wooden mallet is recommended but the top of the plug is waste material anyway so it matters not. Cut off the excess: I used a Fein multi tool oscillating saw. Be careful with your angle as you don’t want to gouge the surrounding deck. It took me a few goes to master the technique but was pretty quick when I did. I said the top of the plugs were waste but if you found yourself short a lot of them had enough material left to do more holes. Sand flat: I used a random orbit sander with a worn 80 grit pad. I now have fresh patches all over the deck so, once I’ve completed a couple of caulking touch ups, I’ll give the whole deck a very light sanding. You could just leave the newly sanded plug patches to grey down to match the deck if you preferred. And that’s it…repeat many times! Feel free to ask any questions 😊⛵️ #boatlife #liveaboardsailboat #boatmaintenance #najad #boatrepairs

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