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Timo and Jo answer audience questions about planned modifications to NV, covering a wide range of structural, mechanical, and performance projects. The most significant structural plan is replacing the single central rudder — which uses a wet bushing that risks flooding on impact — with twin external rudders, eliminating the bushing entirely and improving hydrodynamics on a heeled hull; Timo targets the next haulout, likely in Fiji, but cites cost and unfinished engineering study as the blockers.1:59 A longer-term project involves cutting NV along the longitudinal horizontal plane at the gunwale to raise the entire hull by 35–37 cm, increasing volume in the stern and saloon, with construction in vacuum-infused vinyl ester and a final Kevlar layer matching the original build.8:51 The Volvo engine is running but has needed repeated repairs, including a $600 part six months prior; Timo is approaching engine manufacturers about a sponsored replacement and jokes about nuclear propulsion before seriously proposing four lines of carbon-fiber sweep oars as auxiliary propulsion.11:29 The existing autopilot was assembled from salvaged parts — a used display from Italy, a piston from a burnt boat, and a secondhand gyroscopic compass from eBay — and works well, though the bolt connecting the piston to the quadrant has broken three times.20:38 A wind vane integrated into the twin-rudder system is planned.21:32 Additional projects include retractable cruising foils inspired by the Vendée Globe design, a carbon-fiber coffee grinder reinstallation, full solar panel array, water ballast tanks totaling 1,350 liters aft and 350 liters on the sides, and a redesigned anchor locker and bowsprit.22:57

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