Here’s a categorized list of links to the upgrade or refit projects of other Pearson 424s, courtesy of Dawn and Patrick, formerly of Deepplaya.
Cockpit and Companionways
- Blacksheep’s table and hinged companion way boards and rebuilt starboard companionway
- Hi Flite rebuilt the starboard deck companion way
- Pelican’s cockpit shower (scroll down to the end)
- Whoosh has addded some boards sealing her lazarettes from down flooding
- Bimini Dodger, Sail Covers
Cabin Interior
- Replace starboard companionwayhead bulkhead on Sarah
- Storage improvements
- Hi Flite added shelves in the storage behind the salon settees
- Shower locker, and baskets galore on Sarah
- Pelican has added an additional hatch in the main salon
- Cabin sole
- Black Sheep installed a new teak and holly sole
- Headliner
- Regina Oceani’s new white headliner (2nd pic on the right)
- Hi Flite put in a new headliner which is 1/8″ plywood with a textured vinyl wallper
- Regina Oceani’s new white headliner (2nd pic on the right)
- Hull Lining
- Regina Oceani’s ash battens in the berths (3rd and 4th row)
- Quivera has ash battens in her aft cabin and v-berth, pis and installation details on the P424 site
- Regina Oceani’s ash battens in the berths (3rd and 4th row)
- Insulation
- Hi Flite use Reflectix(tm) under the headliner and hull lining
- Lighting
- Nav station
- Blacksheep has a full chair
- Harmony turned the upper shelf into an instrument panel, added panel above the hanging locker to mount instruments and a portlight where the old instrument panel was
- Meridian converted the lower shelf to storage, the upper shelf to an instrument panel
- Nav Station converted to a locker and the aft berth converted to contain the seat for a fwd facing nav station
- Sea Duty removed the aft swing out seat and put in an aft facing bench with internal storage, they also added a swing out table in front of the aft hanging locker
- Revery has a folddown table but the stock swing out seat
Communications
- Whoosh’s write-up on using a TNC and SSB (3rd article), Skype, ZipGet and Inmarsat Internet Access
- Sarah’s AIS installaton
Electrical
- Battery
- Relocating the house bank in front of the steering quandrant
- Shore Power
- Whoosh’s instructions on using shore power in Europe
- LED lights on the DC breakers aboard Pelican (Scroll)
Emergency Tiller
- Sarah’s has added a block and tackle to her emergency tiller (scroll) to gain a mechanical advantage
Engine
- Blacksheep has a ton of re-power info, probably need to break these out more
- Sarah’s new engine box,, complete with CAD drawings
- Fuel Polishing
- Indulgence has a nice dual Racor filter setup
Equipment lists
Eyebrow Removal
- Hi Flite removed the stainless steel eyebrow whish was leaking and put on a stripe
Galley
- Blacksheep has a knife rack and an overhead cabinet
- Stove
- Refrigerator
Ground Tackle
- Anchor Locker
- Spirit has her chain rode stored in the sewer
- Aurora has a windlass mounted aft of the anchor locker but feed chain back into the locker
- Meridian has a windlass mounted foreward of the locker and hawse pipe into the lower chain locker
- Parallax has a windlass mounted aft of the locker, feeding down through the locker and into the lower locker. She also has an inner forestay chainplate which is interesting to note
- Veritas modified the anchor locker door adding a platform for a large horizontal manual windlass in front of the locker
- Ground Tackle on Sarah
Bow rollers & Windlass
- Blacksheep has dual rollers and horizontal windlass mounted forward of the anchor locker
Hatches
- Hi Flite has good photos of rebedding the hatches
- Sarah replaced her hatches with Lewmar Ocean series
Head
- Hi Flite’s new flooring under the toilet
- Sarah’s Airhead(tm) composting toilet installation
- Pelican has added a large storage area in the shower stall (scroll down), this is a common modification, lots of area back there!
Plumbing
- Thru-Hulls
- Bilge Pump
- Replacing the water tank hatches and vents on Pelican which fixes the leaks caused by both
- Upgrading the hot-water heater on Blacksheep
Propeller
Repower
- Blacksheep’s repower project index
Running Rigging
- New rail mounted Stanchions and Lifelines on Doris E
- Mizzen Sheet and Mizzen Backstays
- Sarah moved the mizzen sheet outboard with a clam cleat that can be mounted to the rail as well as on-center and added Garhauer blocks for the backstays
- Mast Pulpits
- Main Mast
- Sarah replaced hers and has CAD drawings to go with along with internal halyards, StrongTrack, Spartite, masthead tricolor
- Main Winches
- Pelican has new Andersen 46ST winches(scroll) also talks about placement
- Splicing
- Pelican has a nice write up about doing your own splices
Standing Rigging
- Solent Stay
- Whoosh’s solent stay (1st article on the page)
- Sarah’s has a similar if not the same installation
- Pelican has some new lifelines from Suncor Stainless
Swim Ladder
- Sarah moved her ladder to the beam because she has a windvane on the stern
Wind Vane
- Whoosh has an autopilot controlling her wind vane as a backup (2nd article)
- Sarah has a Monitor Windvane (scroll down) good pics of the cockpit lines and moved her boarding ladder amidship