Here's a categorized list of links to the upgrade or refit projects of other Pearson 424s.

Cockpit and Companion ways

• Blacksheep's table and hinged companion way boards and rebuilt starbord companionway
• Hi Flite rebuilt the starboard deck companion way
• RA's binnacle rebuild
• Pelican's cockpit shower (scroll down to the end)
• Whoosh has addded some boards sealing her lazarettes from down flooding
• Bimini Dodger, Sail Covers
• Sarah
• Spirit
• Helm Seat
• Spirit has a curved teak seat

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
• 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, pics and installation details on the P424 site
• Insulation
• Hi Flite use Reflectix(tm) under the headliner and hull lining
• Lighting
• Sarah's cabin lighting upgrade to alpenglow lights
• 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
• Portholes
• Details on rebedding the galley porthole in

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

• Sarah

Eyebrow Removal

• Hi Flite removed the stainless steel eyebrow which was leaking and put on a stripe

Galley

• Blacksheep has a knife rack and an overhead cabinet
• Stove
• Sarah installs a Force 10 stove
• Refrigerator
• Sarah installs a Sea Frost system

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

• RA has a new teak bow roller platform with a horizontal windlass

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
• RA added a locker in the shower. (I thought this was standard)
• Pelican has added a large storage area in the shower stall (scroll down), this is a common modification, lots of area back there!
• Spirit has added brackets for storing scub tanks under the laundry hamper

Plumbing

• Thru-Hulls
• Sarah got rid of some through hulls
• Bilge Pump
• Sarah's bilge setup
• Replacing the water tank hatches and vents on Pelican which fixes the leaks caused by both

Propeller

• Sarah's max-prop installation, propeller and shaft bearings, Stuffing Box,

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
• Pelican's mast pulpit installation
• Traveler
• RA refurbished the traveler risers and installed a new one
• 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

Workshop

• Vice Storage
• Spirit has a vice mounted in the aft hanger locker

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