Interior rough-in begins

Matt with his head under rear of dinette, behind future refrigerator and cabinets, his feet pointing toward a future access door in the cockpit, and under a future storage shelf which is under a sofa/bed that you will see in another picture. Wow!!!! Figure out that sentence.

Matt's head just showing behind the cabinets.  He is sitting on the fishing locker floor that will be accessed from the cockpit.  Note back of rear dinette seat is on left of picture.  An undercounter type of refrigerator will go between dinette and cabinets.  A sofa/bed will go above the cabinets.  Note the windows are not yet installed .  I hope we receive the windows this coming week!

On the floor you may notice the beginning of our oak floor that was milled from old fence boards out of the Virginia countryside.  That is a another story for later on.

Ok folks, this picture is for Matt!  It's always about Matt.  He was so pleased when this shelf, installed above the space he is laying in the first picture, fit absolutely perfectly -- the first try!  While I suspect this was beginners luck, Matt acted like he planned for the shelf to fit.  An access door will be cut through the rear, gray, cockpit/salon wall to gain access to the fishing rod locker that is below this new shelf.  The sofa/bed will go above the space seen herein and will have access hatches from above.  This space will be used as an extra food panty.

This view is from in the forward stateroom looking toward the stern thru the campanion way.  There will be one step up installed to go into the salon. The door on right goes into the head that has a shower and wash basin.  In the foreground, right is the base of a computer printer cabinet that will have shelving above it. You can note the storage hatch covers that are built below the main birth.

This shows the new 350 gallon fuel tankage Tony built across the stern. In the center of the tanks you will see two fill pipes roughed-in with white plastic over them. There will be one fill pipe for each tank.  Just forward of the tank, on the floor, you will see the hydrallic steering unit that has control arms fixed to each rudder. The black lines are a combiation of hydrallic steering lines and fuel supply and return lines for the two engines.  In white you will see electrical wiring that serves the stern light, tank gauges, two rear bildge pumps, auto pilot and steering controls











Here Tony, white shirt, is figuring out how to build the stern seat, it's back support, and the stern deck all while incorporating a collar board to keep out seawater.  On the deck, touching the back of Tony's left foot, you can see the outline of the hatch from under which we removed the 110 gallon fuel tank to make storage space and lighten the load.  In addtion to the 350 gallon tank you see across the stern there is another 100 gallons of fuel forward of the tank we removed.  Total cruising range at 16 nots should be about 400 nautical miles with about a 15% reserve.


You may notice, I am just begining to figure out how to better post and label our blog pictures. We need our step granddaughter, Summer, to give us more blogging lessons.