Photo Tour of Ankle Biter
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INSIDE, Forward:

Here's a nifty little composite view I patched together while sitting on the box under the companionway, looking forward.

Chart table is to the right, with a mess of junk on it.  There's a compass which is actually reasonably accurate when none of the radios are on, set into the corner of the chart takle.  YOu can see the chainplates on both sides...no water staining.  Only one spinnaker pole is in view, but I have two and you get two if you buy the boat.  The two uprights support the cabin top under the mast base.  It's outrageously solid.



chart table and radios and clutter.. The VHF is new this year. The SSB is ancient, but if you buy the boat, you get the SSB, too.  The boat has a mess of extra blocks with it. Two of the spinnaker guy/sheet blocks are there on the table.  YOu can see the nature of the interior framing/construction...1/4 plyood, but *nice* quality plywood to have lasted so long.  You can also see the fiberglass tabbing around the main bulkhead, joining the bulkhead to the underside of the deck. It's perfect, all the way around which is amazing for a 30+ year-old boat.



The fuse panel is inside the chart table. It's kind of basic, I fused a couple of things separately from the panel, but this has everything you will need. There's a simple VOM which tells you if your batteries are dead and that's about it.  It's useless but lots of boats have them.   I haven't found the Jacuzzi, yet.



On the other side of the boat is the galley, such as it is. The sink is pretty, but useless as there's no through-hull for it and it's inaccessible, anyway. See that red handle for the spare mini-bilge pump and the little coil of white line with blue flecks?  There's a two burner, gimballed German  alcohol stove that fits right in there, and I will have it on the boat.  The long PVC tube with the cap at the end is for the man-overboard pole.  I have the seat lifted up, as you can see.



Under the seats are the battery boxes....this one has an assortment of winch covers with shot elastic bumping around in there.. They're not coming to Hawaii. This is the port battery gox, which is under the seat on the port side.


And this is the starboard battery box, under the seat ont he starboard side.  You can see the three-way Off/Battery 1/ Battery 2/ All  swtich.  the previous owner installed a plastic mirror on the underside of the seat, which is nothing but brilliant, if you ask me.



And here's the starboard seat....the one with the mirror, closed up.  That's my kitchen timer, which I set to go off every 25 minutes when I'm sailing within 250 miles of land, and when I'm napping. See that ugly brown stripe of gook along the sheerline, behind the wiring?  It looks a LOT better now. That's left over from the old copper foil ground strap that linked the SSB radio with the antenna tuner in the lazarette. It was corroded something fierce so I ripped it out, leaving that ugly brown strip, which is just leftover old glue. It's now covered with a nice, new piece of shiny aluminum, for the new ground strap....MUCH prettier.


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