We have been busy….honest.
There are phases of work where you seem to be chipping away for ages and not making much progress, and then whole section is done.
We seemed to have spent a couple of weeks bent over in the forepeak. But that is nearly finished now. We have built all the framing for the storage lockers, along with there lids.
Everything in the lockers has had two coats of epoxy to seal and has two coats of primer. We will put a top coat on next week and then they are ready to have the locker tops glued down. The undersides of have also had two coats of epoxy to seal too. We won’t paint these as they should not have any UV on them.
One of the lockers will be “wet” as it will have the hull penetrations for the marine toilet and also a depth transducer. This locker will have two watertight hatchtops.
We built a platform for the marine toilet to sit on. This will bolt to 4 securing points I have glued to the frame. This means I will be able to lift the toilet out of the boat as unit, for instance if I don’t want to carry it for long distance races.
The cabin bunks have been cleaned out and painted the same as the forepeak. Just waiting final painting next week and these can be finished too. Galley box and chart table are just about complete too, ready to land them on the bunks.
Manual bilge pumps are here so We will be mounting these shortly too.
Next week we hope to start putting the deck frame together all being well.
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