Grey Seal

Today a minor milestone , glued the cabin sides and front in. Means I have to find another way aboard !

Last few days have been a boat building adventure. I got the lid on! Well half of it anyway, gives a really different feel to cabin. Next photos show two 1/4” sheets laid athwartships, glued and screwed down also about 100 plastic nails. Happily it looks like only about three have missed the mark and come through inside so there’s a bit of patching coming up along with the final finish inside cabin.

To hold down edges of roof sheets while I screwed them I setup some clamp blocks that are in turn clamped to side of cabin through portholes.

Ive also had the varnish brush busy too putting some trim in the cabin, knees and Carlin trim pieces etc

before putting on these inner sheets I coated 2 epoxy, 2 undercoat & 2 topcoats. I drew lines around all the framing and over coated them by about 2mm so I wouldn’t get bare bits once the roof was on. After a cleanup with the chisel stick and wipe with acetone the only prob Len I have is the few plastic nails that came through that I gotta repair.

more after I’ve done putting next sheets on.

Time for an update I think cos engine stuff is slowed waiting for bits. I’ve started constructing the cockpit lockers so that the fuel tank has a home and the engine control lever gets fitted into the opposite locker on port side.

this is the starboard locker with a piece of MDF screwed onto side deck Carlin at the angle of seat back which also curves in planview. I had to project the angle of the future 12mm sea back down to seat level so I cut a pointer stick of a thickness which gave the line of front surface so that I could plan where the rear hinged lip of locker lid goes.

I think on the above pic you may be able to see the lines of lid.

Now onto making the drainage channel for rear outboard of lid. Done as you see with use of router table. This piece is to be fitted between two bulkheads and will glued in with support blocks as well.