Bracket and Engines Mounted

We have mounted the bracket and engines over the past few weeks with pops at the wheel. The bracket went on relatively easy, we had to add a couple of pieces of starboard as spacers in a few sections in order allow the bolts to grab enough.

We also installed the first portion of the hydro-steering with the tie bar, put a coat of paint in the bilge, mounted and wired the bilge pumps and raw water pump and I finally convinced Phil to cut a hole in the bottom of the boat for the raw water pick-up. After that convincing, we mounted the pick-up and the seacock. Then we got pissed off when Jake threw a pic with 1:50 left in the game and Miami beat the Panthers so we called it a day.

Here are the pics:
Pops at the helm:

Bracket Installed with thru-bolts & 5200 and the first 140 mounted:

And the Twins!

Bilges and thru-hull mounted:

Raw Water and wiring config:

Pre-finishing Flooring

Brutally hot today in Charlotte, so work was slow, even with 3 fans. I was able to sand out the patched section from yesterday on the bow, it will paint nicely:

We also applied a little cab to the joints between the raised sections of flooring and will be coming back to sand that and then wrap it with some cloth and then sand it out and Durabak:

Moving into the cuddy we have opted to keep a small lip at the floor in order to prevent water from moving that way, again it was cab'd into place and will be sanded and then wrapped and sanded again:

here is an interior shot of the new addition:

we also applied some more interlux-interstripping on the hull and have come to the conclusion that we will most likely have to sand the 4 coats of bottom/house paint off in order to get a good base for the new paint- that is going to s u c k!

More Floor

The cabosil that I placed along the seams sanded out nicely and I was able to lay a layer of tape down on the upper sections. My mistake was doing this at night and I had to contend with an s-load of moths...some of which are part of the boat ;)

Today, I shimmed out the rest the of the stringers for the back piece of flooring, cab'd a piece of plywood up in the cuddy to give some support for the front cleat and then cab'd and glassed the old lifting ring hole on the top-front.
Will have the lay some fabric across this too:

It will look better after some elbow grease - but you get the jist:

I also spent some time fashioning a sidewall support/side-mount rod holder, here is a pic of my primo fabrication (lil duct tape, cardboard and razor knife):

Here is the first section that I cut out with that pattern, jury is out on this idea right now: