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Well, pictures would seem to show I haven't been doing anything these last several days, but I've completed fitting and installing the aft half of the main double bulkhead. It takes a day to prepare a template then fit, cut, route, and install each of the 3 panels. I double glass taped the section that will be below the cabin sole. Now I can work aft of the bulkhead and fit in the sanitary tank or forward and fasten down the forward cabin sole and start with Cptn's cabin and head compartments. Tomorrow I'm going to start glueing up the support arch under the mast step.

Main Salon Floors

Well ..... after many days of glueing plywood strips I fit and installed the first of 8 or 9 main salon floors. Yesterday I tore out the old stbd quarter berth. The boat really look big inside with that structure gone. Of course, it will be going back in just 6 inches further aft and not quite so wide. Hal Roth says berths on a sea going cruiser should be no more than 24 inches wide. Hey, he's sailed 50000 miles. He must know a little of what he writes about. Actually, he did a lot of his sailing in a Spencer 35, the same basic design as the S-42, just shorter. I'm taking a lot of his ideas and incorporating them into my boat. It doesn't really look like I've done much but I'll post a picture of the suppot floor tomorrow. Feb 15 I've installed 5 floors and the 6th is fitted. I need to finish the double main bulkhead and holding tank before I put in the last 2 floors.

Hand Holes

Well, I'm not going to get the fwd cabin sole in by tomorrow. Those little circles on the ground are the under side of the hand holes you see in yesterday's post. Each circle has to be cut outside, inside and the outer edge routed. Tomorrow I'll fasten them in place. Then, before I fasten the sole I have to run the shower drain and fwd water tank fill and system supply. Oh well, at least the days are warm and sunny. :-)