Dinette floor open. Installed a new dinette floor, with a piano hinge down the middle to allow increased ventilation to the bilge, at the same time that I had to replace the stringers, bulkheads, and floorboards. The floorboards are now 3/4" teak & holly. All wood sealed with 3 coats of West System epoxy Clear-Coat, and numerous coats of Fleecto Varathane. |
Main bulkhead in salon. The brass plaques represent victories from 1972-2000. The cabin lamp to the upper left of the kerosene lamp is a coach lamp from a 1913 Pierce Arrow automobile. It originally ran on acetylene, being piped to a box of calcium carbide chips on the running board, add H2O and you have acetylene. I rewired it for 12 volts. Cushions are in the "racing" position, |
allowing more room to pack spinnakers. My wife Pat picked out the materials for the cushions, and I taught myself how to reupholster. Also had to replace port chainplate and about 2 lateral feet of main bulkhead, veneer & varnish to match old bulkhead. |
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