December 7,
Work on the interior continues. On Saturday morning I remade that double door stop member that I was not too happy with. There was just not enough width for the 1" (2.5 cm) doors that I was planning on building. I had to make it out of two pieces due to its cross section.
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The notch is for the 1/2" plywood wall. On either side is the door stops going the opposite direction. Now there is plenty of room for door hardware and the shape will be continuous around the door.
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These are the casings for the top of the doors. The curvature matches the deck cabin curvature. The pattern in plywood is on the right emphasizing the curvature with is not much.
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| In order to dado the channel I added a bump plate under the saw blade so the curved pieces would have the proper dado depth along their length. |
Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I continued to work on the ventilation strips that go under the ceiling (the interior sides of the boat). I also fitted more of the tongue and groove bead board to the starboard side.
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This is an image of the starboard side of the 'Vee' berth. Ventilation strips go along the side from below the berth to the vents at the top.
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Dec 19,20
I finally figured out how to tackle the sole. After scribing leveling marks along the bulkheads to either side of the mast step girder, I installed oak strips to take up the sole material. The sole will be 3/4" plywood under the lockers, berths, etc. while I'm planning on using quarter sawn southern yellow pine accented with black walnut for the exposed sole and companion ways. Why? because I have the black walnut and we live in the south where southern yellow pine is plentiful and inexpensive not to mention beautiful when quarter sawn.
Using plywood in the unexposed portions of the sole is easier and cheaper than laying planking plus I can go ahead and install that part of the sole without worrying about pluming and system runs (they will be accessible from the planked part of the sole which will have removable panels. Once the plywood sole is installed, I can build out all of the cabinetry.
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On the bulkhead at the top of the photo, you can see the athwartship oak strip. I've put a temporary nail into it and run a line between the two bulkheads (the other is not shown). I am then able to rough measure the members which will support the sole. You can see one dry installed in the middle of the picture. This one actually runs into the longitudinal. Some of them will actually run all the way to the hull. There will be an intermediate support from a lower longitudinal to the athwartship members holding up sole. I'll install these last so I can perform a final leveling of the the sole by tweaking the height of the middle of those members. I'll take a picture and show you later.
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| The next one notches into the longitudinal and continues to the hull. Notice that there is just a little bit of space between the red line and the member. Always set the line a hair high because you can not tell if the member is at the line or pushing it up just a bit but you can gauge the space between the line and the member. |
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| Looking at a few more of these temporarily in place. |
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| All of the support members for the sole in the starboard cabin ready to install. |
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| All of the support members for the sole in the port cabin ready to install. |
