Project Log: Friday, July 15, 2011
After vacuuming and otherwise preparing the area, I
applied a coat of paint to the lockers beneath the new
dinette, as well as the bottoms of the dinette platform
hatches and around the hatch openings themselves.
Eventually, much later in the construction process, I'd
paint the tops of the platforms and hatches, but liked
to get the undersides done now. |
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I'd optimistically hoped to install the platform later
in the day, but some of the paint within the lockers was
still tacky enough that I decided against it, lest I
litter the fresh paint with drill spoils and the like.
Installation could wait till another day.
Instead, I spent the balance of the day on various
research projects, part of what seemed to be a fairly
extensive period of equipment and systems research, as I
attempted to plan ahead sufficiently for several of the
larger onboard systems: heat, engine, and cooking.
I had a lot to learn about onboard heating systems in
particular.
In that vein, I removed the engine template from the
boat so I could double-check all my measurements.
The measurements were accurate, and the template a fair
representation of the measured engine drawing, so
clearly I'd need to make some combination of engine
foundation modifications and custom engine mounts to
ensure the engine would fit properly. My early
plan included raising the existing engine foundation
tops by an inch or two, which I could accomplish easily
and effectively while also improving the existing
foundations' strength, with the balance of the
additional height to be made up by custom mounting
flanges from Beta Marine.
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Total Time Today: 4 hours
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