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The deck is now installed and the cabin walls are built up.
The cabin beams are just starting to be installed. This view is looking aft toward the cockpit. CAI is hanging his feet in the hatch above the forepeak. |
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picture is taken a few minutes later, from the cockpit area. You are looking forward toward the bow. The cabin carlings are installed at the top of the cabin walls. Each beam will nest in the carlings on each end. |
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The cockpit is now framed in, but
no "floor" yet.
There will be hatches cut into the decking on the aft, port and starboard sides of the cockpit area.
It has been reall,y really cold at times and working on the boat is slowed as
a result. Glue and fiberglass epoxies freeze and don't cure in the cold
temps. Sometimes CAI builds a tent with blankets and runs heaters to heat
a local area for some needed glue jobs but that's more the exception than the
rule.
Despite the cold, CAI has finished installing the decking, he has framed out
the cockpit and he is now building and installing beams for the cabin.
(Pictures coming soon for that). This beam-fitting and installation means
a lot of back and forth trips between the shop and the boat, measuring and
cutting and measuring and sanding and so on.
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