Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Frames explained.

 It dawns on me that I haven't shown a decent picture of what the frames are and where.

1: frame-1 is at the foot of the berths.  My feet will stick through this when sleeping.

2: frame-2 forms the front of the cabin area and so its upper portion is also a 'bulkhead' between the cabin and the fore-deck area.

3: frame-3 meets only the bottom and sides the hull.  

4: bulkhead-4 is the largest and is the bulkhead between the outside cockpit and the inside cabin.  It will contain a door.  The roof of the cabin also has a sliding hatch.

5: frame-5 is the middle of the cockpit area.

6: bulkhead-6 is the front of the enclosed stern area which includes the motor well, and encloses the outboard motor.

7: although the Transom is the back of the boat and is double thick plywood, in this case it does not support an outboard motor.  The outboard is mounted on the front of the motor well structure. 

 

So far I have completed the Transom, frame-4, and frame-1.  The others have been drawn on the plywood and rough cut around them with a jigsaw.  Getting all the frames done and coated with epoxy is the goal for the winter and can be done inside a warm basement workshop (I'm still working full-time during this period).

 

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