New Year, New Boat Stuff

Well, again, it seems hard to keep up with the Blog daily.  I will try and do better next week.  Anyway, there has been lots of progress the last week, and this post has a LOT of pictures.

Once I got the last little bit of fairing sanded off, I laid out and cut the fiberglass for the chines.  6 Pieces, each one almost 16 feet long.

Laid out for the overlaps.

The final couple pictures before we flipped the boat onto her keel.

Here she is on the dollies for the first time.  We spent the next hour contemplating the inner decking.

I pretended to row it.

Lexi is excited for when we get to go camping for the first time.

Showing me they can lay down in the boat.  Generally, being cute and funny.  Charlie also can't wait to go camping out of the boat!

Transom hatch bulkhead and support at Frame 1

Bulkhead at the Stem with support at Frame 10

I glassed up the transom with a piece of fiberglass mat and some 6" 6oz Tape

Ran a strip of the 6" up in the inside of the stem, over the 2" biax.

I spent one evening last week getting a bunch of the plywood we would need for bulkheads sorted and trimmed to large/rough size.

What Amy calls my treasure map.  These are rough plans for the hatches.  Notice there are no dimensions, we have to figure out all of the sizes and proportions.  This is truly a one-off.

Shot of the bulkheads and deck supports.  There are a few modifications left to make.  The rear seat bulkhead is going to be dropped a few inches.  

Here you can see the products of some of our demolition, and mostly Gary's precision with the circular saw.  When we put the bottom on, we had only planned on removing frame #4, which is the middle of the back hatch.  Last night, I think we were talked into taking out the bottom of Frame 6 as well.  By talked into, I mean I was doing the convincing.  I figured it would help open up the area underneath the boatmens footwell, thereby making those side hatches more usuable.  

If you look at the pictures below, you can see I talked Gary into a little more demo than that today.  We removed the bottom of frames 3, 4, 6 & 8.  Pretty  much anywhere a bulkhead doesnt reside.  

If anyone is interested, that 3M 5002 Marine Sealant is bomber.  As the label states, "mechanical removal required".  Well, we have the technology. 

Here you can see (From right to left) the bulkhead at frame 2, the missing lower frames at #3, #4, the Bulkhead at #5, and the removed bottom at frame #6 (this is the boatmens footwell).

A clear shot of the middle of the boat.  Bulkhead at #5, removed frame bottom at #6, bulkhead at #7, back of seat at #8, and the front bulkhead at #9.  In front of this bulkhead is the passengers footwell.

Here is a shot of the front of the boat (stem or bow).  Bulkhead at #7, seat brace at #8, along with the removed bottom frame at #8 (this one was a real bitch.  Thanks again 3M), bulkhead at number #9, footwell, with the front hatch bulkhead at frame #10.

In the coming days, we will complete the deck supports, adjust the rear seat configuration and begin building the bulkheads and framing pieces around the boatmens footwell.  After that, we should be able to get some serious interior glassing done.  We have to glass all of the interior walls, bulkheads and footwell.  I also want to add some more to the inside bottoms of the hatches.