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From Copenhagen, Denmark, to Arnhem, The Netherlands

Eos as we found her in Copenhagen in 1989.

A temporary foredeck of plywood.

A new mast to be.

Hauled out in Kerteminde, Denmark, to get her ready for transport over sea.

Taking off the ice plates

and filling all the ice plate nail holes.

Some old juniperus trunnels.

A new oak keelson.

Ready for taking her across to The Netherlands.

Moored in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

On land in Enkhuizen, The Netherlands

Some planks had to be replaced.

A convenient entrance to pour in the new ballast.

Flame heating new oak planks to bend them in the right shape.

Inside the yard hall for renewing the deck and cabin tops

After replacing some planks in the hull we rented a place inside a shipyard to replace the deck.

New bilinga (a tropical hardwood) planks, painted in advance, now being cut to the right size.

The first plank is measured out.

The deck beams are painted with 2 coats of red lead

and have 2 coats of enamel paint on top of that.

The walking part of the deck has been layed.

The forward cabin.

The middle cabin with a frame for the skylight.

The middle cabin now covered.

The sliding hatches are covered with alerce, to save weight.

The deck seams are caulked with cotton, then payed with bitumen (Jefferey's marine glue).

After caulking we covered it all with a coat of aluminium paint to seal the bitumen, before applying the deck paint.

Interior - the engine room

We stripped all of Eos' interior until just the engine was left.

The engine room was a maze of pipes and wires.

After stripping most of the appendages.

A clean start.

Interior - starting with the basics

The start.

Repairing a bad part of a frame.

New bilge stringers, in one piece from bow to stern.

Frames for the double bulkheads next to the mast.

The bulkheads are taking shape.

Engineroom bulkheads.

Starboard side of the aft cabin, to become the navigation corner.

A still empty bathroom next to where the companion way will be.

Interior - an example of one of the many jobs: building in the diesel tank

New steel tank for 300 liters of diesel.

Block and tackle for hoisting and lowering the diesel tank into its place.

The tank in position under the double bunk.

Outside again - and making the hull watertight again

Sanding the hull.

Scraping out the old caulking.

Caulking with cotton above the waterline.

Caulking with hemp below the waterline.

Showing off the progress.

New rudder all ready.

New rudder in place.

Launching

Sanded, scrubbed, scraped, caulked, tarred, painted: Ready for launching.

Getting transported by tractor to the travellift.

Being lowered by the travellift.

And afloat.

The work continues

In January 2000 the interior is ready enough to start living on board.

The kitchen more or less in working order. Details like a bathroom door still to be added.

Making the railing planks.

Two of these nicely curved pieces of an oak tree.....

.....to make into lion's feet.

Eos is completed with mast, rigging and sails in 2002.

The mast being positioned by the crane

and lowered.

Full circle - Eos back in Copenhagen

Further maintenance/repairs

2004, The Netherlands

After a collision, we had to replace a cracked plank. Just to be sure, we also replaced the plank above and below.

Note the curve of the plank after the shaping.

The black marks on the planks are caused by steam/heat bending.

2012, Portugal

When Eos was just out of the water, it didn't look like such a big job,

but there were six bad frames; this was the worst.

The shipyard of Dias & Sabino in Olhão had good craftsmen who put in six new frames

and six new planks.

The bathroom with the new planks and frames.

Part of the galley, with the new frames and planks.

More than 100 new trunnels.

The wooden nails in place before sawing the heads off.

A coat of red lead.

2013, Portugal

In the same shipyard of Dias & Sabino we had all of the underwater part stripped, some planks replaced, many seams recaulked and many nails and plugs replaced.

A nicely smooth underwater part, covered in new coats of primer and antifouling.

We had the mast out for a thorough painting and varnishing job and replaced the navigation light cables and several halyards.

2014, Portugal

A mooring line had nearly torn off the bobstay attachment

A large section of the damaged wood was taken out

Eos now has a solid new bow

2015, Portugal

In 2015 the shipyard took off all the paint on the hull above the waterline.

The topsides now have a smooth finish.

Some new planks.

Several coats of paint.