Final Factory QC visit

With about 2 weeks before the boat is scheduled to ship, I did a quick trip to the Seawind Factory to see Paradisean before she is wrapped and shipped. The main objective is to look for any major issues that must be resolved at the factory, review electronic layout and the custom wiring were done per our requirement, and confirm system functions. We enlisted the help of Anthony Gates at Andaman Marine Surveyors to be our factory advocate.

The all-United flight from AUS-LAX-HKG-SGN was pretty grueling with the longest leg taking over 14 hours, thankfully 2 of the legs were upgraded. This was quite reminiscent of my past professional career where I used to fly 17+ hours to Singapore for a 2~3 day meeting.

Unfortunately when I got there, the electrical wiring was still in progress and the only system we could test was the Webasto diesel heater, solar charger, lights, fans, and some of the bilge pump/alarms. The air conditioner and engine were yet to be completely wired up. Overall I was quite happy with what I was able to see, the major issues seen in earlier boats (trifold door gap, grid enforcement, gooseneck, stemhead fitting for the screecher all had a fix or appeared resolved. The major issue was the coolant return line on the starboard side was interfering with the steering linkage and too close to the fuel filter.

I used the rest of the time at the factory to confirm the dimension of the starboard companionway where we'll be installing a gate for our kids, as well as confirming the location where I'll be installing the Unifi network, Victron Cerbo GX for boat monitoring, and the watermaker control box.

Anthony came up with a long list of issues for Seawind to address, and I left the factory to a 36-hour return trip, but not before a nice brewery crawl with my high school friend Jung in district 1.