Main hull interior and other bits

I meant to add some of these pictures last week, but couldn’t find my USB cable after moving.

Here’s the carbon fiber traveller finished, next to the selected Harken track.

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We also managed to finish the rudder (I think, hope….  will know more once some primer is on)…

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I’m actually real impressed with how close we got to the profile sections since it was all done by hand.  I have faith it will work well given our collective skill level with sailing multihulls… 🙂

Have almost all of the interior roughed in right now.  Still need to tape the under-side of the settee webs and add in the anchor well, which we will do when the hull is laying on the deck.

Decided to make the web at the aft end of the v-berth the same depth as the settee web to make for a transition that I was comfortable with.

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Now that the interior is more complete, we have a feel for the size of the interior.  I remain impressed at the utilization of space for a boat of this size.

Here you can see the main cabin from the companion way bulkhead looking forward.  The anchor well is laying on the starboard settee, painted and ready to be taped in when we turn the hull onto the deck.

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Here’s a view of the v-berth from the daggerboard case (forward beam bulkhead just visible on the left).  The opening on the deck is actually for the anchor well which has not been installed, but makes for great air movement and handing materials into the hull to work with.

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For the next view, I stayed where I was positioned and just turned to face aft.  You can see the crawl-space into the aft cabin, the companion way bulkhead, the aft beam bulkheads (with a temporary join to keep the hull proper), and then the aft cabin hatch into the cockpit.

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This is the bilge area at the companion way crawl-space looking aft into the aft cabin.  The holes at the aft bulkhead are small storage area and access to the rudder web.

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Once inside the aft cabin, it’s actually quite spacious (again, for a 22ft trimaran) – I have no problems sitting upright with plenty of head-room.  You can see the crawl-space to get back into the main cabin, the hatch at the top of the picture leads into the cockpit.

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The last “interior” picture is from the cockpit, looking down into the aft cabin hatch.  We sized this hatch and the deck hatch (not yet cut) for the Lewmar Medium 50 hatch.  The aft cabin bulkhead will require a thicker flange to meet the minimum mounting requirements for this hatch.

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We started sketching out a template for the hatches to make a mold for the rear flange, and once that is done, the mold will be cut away to make a flat surface for the curved deck area.  Also started cutting templates/lumber to make the rudder casette.

This weekened, dad and I took the hull off the cradles so it could lay at an angle on the garage floor for access to the under-wing area.  It’s still light enough for the two of us to grunt around without levers or hoists, but by the time we finish laminating the exterior that might change some….

Here you can see the anchor well hatch opening, the access hole for the jib furler and a cleat because… well… because we could 🙂

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I think she’s listing to port….

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I made a pass with bog to start filling in the screw holes and seams that we didn’t already get.  Here’s dad doing what he does best… sanding … 🙂

After some quick time with the random-orbital, the starboard side is ready for the longboard to even everything out.  Hopefully to be laminated soon…

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Last picture – starboard under-wing area looking forward.  Very nice hull lines 🙂

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Plan is to do the starboard lamination, rotate to do the port side, then finally onto the deck to finish interior taping that would be best with gravity on our side.  I can’t wait to start putting the beam mounts in…

Speaking of beams… looks like ours will be ready to head this way sometime in May… need to get cracking faster and get the mounts installed!