After a winter break, it's time to get back into boatbuilding mode. It took me a week or so to get my head around where I was up too on the build and do a stock check on the remaining ply, epoxy and glass cloth.
With the exception of exterior paint, electricals and a completing the trailer, I estimated I had enough stock to complete the build.
I kicked off on the cockpit seat backs. To ensure a tight fit against the transom, cockpit floor and cabin BH I decided to use cardboard templates fore and aft, joining the two with thin ply strips hot glued together to form a tight template. In conjunction with the paper plan, I traced the outline onto 6mm ply and cut out with a jigsaw.
While this method required additional labor it resulted in a tight, neat finish. I am adding a couple of mods to this area prior to gluing the seat backs in place. The first mod is a storage area in the first buoyancy chamber aft of the cabin BH with access from inside the cabin area. The second mod is to add electrical conduit through the foam buoyancy chambers from the cabin BH to the aft seat back storage area. This will provide future electrical access for things like the transducer lead and power to a chart plotter, USB/Cig socket DC power outlets, light power and compass backlight power. This will eliminate visual wiring inside the cabin area.
check out the October 2023 posts on my blog.
Cheers Terry from down under
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