Sunday, August 21, 2011

Dry fitting of longitudinals...


Vacuum bagging a foam floor.


I was fortunate to find a used carbon fiber mast from a J/90, light and strong.  It turns out to have quite a history.  It is from Eye-Eye which was previously Surfinn.  Ryan Finn completed the Single Handed TransPac in 2004 in Surfinn with a corrected time of 11:06:11:30.


The longitudinals make up the fronts of the cockpit seats as well as the bunk fronts.  Here they are being dry-fitted against the hull and over the floors prior to gluing the puzzle joints.



The outboard motor goes through a well a few feet forward of the transom.  The cut out in the hull forms the bottom of a plug which goes into the motor well when the motor is stowed in a cockpit locker



There are watertight voids at both ends of the boat which can be accessed via 10" inspection plates.  The plates screw into their frames with a watertight o-ring seal.  Doubler  rings reinforce the bulkheads.

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