After the 6-months crossing of the Pacific Ocean we knew a bit more about our Monsoon.

With a vessel like Monsoon, the navigating, sailing and storm-survival are the easy part of the job, and this was navigating with only GPS and paper chart, nowadays with the chart plotters, a reasonable kid can do the navigation.
Here the human factor and Murphy's law dominate the scene. Do the best you can. Concentrate, focus and dedicate yourself. Socially this will put you apart, but never make you feel lonely.
Pay a lot of attention/money to equipment, pumps and machinery.

An extensive and complete overhaul program in NZ consisted of the following items
+ much more:

New Leisure Furl in boom furlers,
all new Lidgard sails,
2 new Reckmann headsail furlers,
New anchor and chain and electric Maxwell windlass.
New exhaust hoses, standpipes, batteries, clean and treat all tanks,
more and bigger pumps and hoses
, remove all American plastic fittings. Paint job/Sandblast inside/outside
hull and the deckhouse.
Recaulk decks with Sikaflex 290DC
. New bathroom + interior modification + upholstery + canvas.
Sandblast+paint masts.
New 12mm toughened glass all around.
New Furuno Fish finder, B&G, GPS, VHF.
All new fishing gear
and much much more!!!!