4. Interior

Turn over day!
At this point the exterior of the hull has 3 coats of  Interlux Interprime Sealer.
The cradle frame in the forground will sit on the strongback once the boat is lifted off.

The boat has been lifted off and the cradle frame has been screwd to the strongback.

   

waiting to turn over and placed on the cradle frame.

The crew showing off their muscles while lowering the boat onto the cradle frame. 

The blue tape is for alignment to the cradle frame.

Station frames removed and cross braces added.  Note the bulheads with the holes for access ports.  More on those later.


                                                               

Using a lazer level on the rear seat bulkhead to mark the bench seat locations.

                               

Thwart seats fitted.

                            

Rear seat framing- White Oak.

Another view of the rear seat frames.  The front seat is frame is built in the same manner.



Bench seat frames- White Oak.  I made my bench seats removable to allow better access while varnishing.



This is the plywood sub-seat that has been sealed in place.  Mahogany top pieces will complete the seat.  (see finished interior views)

The centerboard trunk being fitted.

                            
                                                                

Working on the rear seat area.



Mahogany breathook being fitted.

All the seats have been removed to give the interior 3 coats of Pettit 2018 sealer.
I did not epoxy coat the interior of the Hull.  After reading "How to build glued-lapstrake wooden boats" by John Brooks and Ruth Ann Hill, I decided against epoxy coating the Hull.  I highly reccommend this book.

Gluing in the thwart seat,  The interior of the Hull has 7 coats of Captains Varnish at this time,  The thwart seat has 7 on the bottom and 5 on the top, 2 more coats will be applied to the top and to the knees.
The areas where the glue needed to go were masked off durring varnishing.

This contraption is a 5 gallon bucket steamer for bending the curved laminent mahogany pieces that trims off the aft section of the centerboard trunk.

                            

One of the steamed mahogany laminents clamped to the form.  The mahogany pieces were planed down to about 5/16" thick.  Mahogany doesn't like to steam bend easily!

Under the mainsheet block are the steam bent pieces as shown in the picture above.

These next 3 pictures are detail drawings of the centerboard hanger design that I used.  Details of the centerboard installation are on the "Fitting Out" page.