On the first set of pictures there was a couple of pictures showing different angles of the boat.
You can see the original layout, there is a 2 burner stove inside the cabin on the left, below it there is a refriginator. On the right there is a toilet. Original steering wheel and controls.
I did not wanted to use precious space for toilet and galley so they were removed.
Toilet area:
Some of the stuff comming out... what a mess....
When I brought the boat to my house (from my warehouse) the boat looked like this. You can see the sides of the "pilot-house-to-be" were cut, and the height was raised on the back part. Compare this picture to the first. Also compare the 2nd picture of the first set of pictures to this picture to see the diference. The helm was moved forward because the toilet was taken out, this was done to make room for a bigger pilot house.
With the boat in my backyard I could now work on the pilot house. The sides of the pilot house were put up first.
The deck was 3/4" plywood fiberglassed on both sides with 1708 biaxial and ISO resin. By the way, I used ISO resin for all the project; if you look at the spec sheet of ISO and Epoxy, the added benefit of Epoxy (about 5% better overall) is not worth the price in my book. You are entitled to your own opinion.
Weather man said rain... got to cover the ply or it will take forever to dry completly.
Structure that will support the deck of the pilot house and all the fatty fishermen, sanded.
Same structure, now it is gelcoated.
Pilot house side - extension.
Cutting the pilot house deck-ply for the hatches.
Making a lip for one hatch-cover
Fitting the pilot-house deck
Gealcoat looks nice thru the hatch-openings
Tabbing the deck to the supports.
Next was the construction and preparation of the pilot-house roof. Notice the camber. This is the fore roof. One of three parts that would complete the roof.
If you're wondering how was this built.... well, first the 1x4 's that were used to give the plywood this "form" were cut with a jigsaw, then they were clamped together, all 4 of them, and they were finished with a planer. Later they were refinished by doing some sanding, now I had for identical supports with the same radius, see next picture.
This is the aft roof.
Fore and aft roof parts, middle part missing, was installed once the roof was on the pilot house.
Both parts of the roof were fiberglassed on the "inside side of the roof" so that I wouldn't have to fiberglass upsidedown. Only one layer of 1.5oz mat was used for this, trying to keep weight down.
Aft sides of pilot house were installed first, before the roof.
I can't post more pics on this reply.. I'll do another one.
.... although my grinding was really done on my fiberglass work, more on that later.
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