The weather stayed nice so I did some more work. I didn't get any pictures, but I ran some finger fillets around the underside of the the deck. Now it should be well sealed against water.
Quincy painted the inside of the cabin sides, so they were ready to install.
I glued the cabin sides on. I had dry fitted them last week, so I knew right where they fit and had already used the rasp to file the front and fit it well.
I did not cut drain holes in the cabin sides. I hope I don't regret that. I suppose I can cut them out with a fine saw sometime in the future if I feel it's needed.
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| Sides installed. |
I took a few inside shots as well.
Since everything fore of B3 is already painted, I don't have to do much there. Although I will paint the exposed inside areas before I glue on the cabin top.
The nav light mount looks terrible now. Some sanding will take care of it.
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| Inside the cabin. |
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| A view from the front. |
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| bow view |
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| A shot of the nav light mount |
The nav light mount looks terrible now. Some sanding will take care of it.
I will have to do some sanding of the entire deck before I can coat it. But I can do that even if it is cold.
The next step is to wire the nav light. The ends will fit through the hole and the wires running to the circuit panel will go through nylon quick release clips. That way I can replace it with another light easily without a lot of mucking about with wires.
My plan is to finish off the inside of the cabin and then get the cabin top glued down.
Then I will flip the boat and do the bottom before finishing the coamings and painting the interior.
Jeff -
ReplyDelete"I did not cut drain holes in the cabin sides. I hope I don't regret that. I suppose I can cut them out with a fine saw sometime in the future if I feel it's needed."
I'd recommend doing it now. Water pools there and just sits. Not that much of an issue when you are sailing but when you are anchored, moored, or outside on a trailer, you want the fresh rain water to drain. It's amazing how much can pool there.
Bob's Peanut had this issue. I'm not sure if it was corrected before the boat was transferred to his son Ben. I know we talked about it but it's a lot more labor intensive once the paint job is in place:-)
Also good tie-off points for a forward bridle and the front of a tent etc.
Simeon