seat radius & ancient epoxy

Well with three months to go our deadline is pretty tight. The main sail has been completed and the others will be soon too. The spars have been ordered. We’re putting in a lot of hours. The majority are being sucked up in sanding and coving. Our biggest problem is the epoxy we have to clean up from when we were building.

Having built boats before, we preached the “clean up all the epoxy as you go” sermon to ourselves. We thought we’d done a reasonable job until now when we’re trying to finish off. One – two year old epoxy is very hard.

We’ve glued the seat fronts on now, and built in the back seat. We’ve departed from the plans here. Normally the seat tops overhang the fronts by about two inches.
As you can see we’ve sloped the fronts and are rounding the corner off. This should give us more space, be more comfortable and make her a bit racier.

Before and after.

seats

We've glued the seat tops on. Coving underneath wasn't the most comfortable..

We've put the skirts round the boat to protect the paint work (no we're not hiding a HULA ;-).

We glued doublers to the back of the seat fronts for the inspection ports and to strength them.

Well how else were we going to hold them in place? The supermarket had a special on clamps :o)