Year Three Week 12
Once again I am typing this in the new year so I will do Dec in two pages
The seat that used to be where the counter is now was save and moved 17in. forward. The engine start battery was under it before along with the red dot and I kept both set ups.
Battery and Seat
A close up shows the battery in place along with the fuse. There is a negative terminal block there also. These are all around the boat, it makes sense to combine the negatives and have one wire going back rather then many.
Battery up close
I finally settled on how I was going to do the fore hatch, I duplicated the old one. I had Dave from the marina duplicate the old frame. I installed it by putting in anchor bolts from underneath and bedding with butyl. Then I had to build an inner frame. I couldn't get my hands on Teak for the inner frame so I used Mahogany and stained it which is why the tape is there. I had a borrowed cheap chop saw and getting the bevels and lengths right all the way around for the inner frame took some doing.
Fore Hatch Frame
Here is the finished frame with Cetol
Finished Hatch Frame
The final major task of the year, before Christmas we finally got the cockpit painted. Chris The Paint God came and spent a couple of days doing the final prep work and I masked everything and out came the gun. As you can see from the masked off areas there will be more antiskid than painted area when it is finished.
Painted Cockpit
So another year gone, is there a launching in 2015?