Day 178-179 11/29/24, 12/01/24 Cabin sole, Cockpit Pedestal guard final installation.

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Cabin sole (day 178)

 

Sanded floor patches was done weekend before 

To make clear cut on floor panels I made  plywood (actually laminated MDF) templates based on paper templates I had made week ago. Then fit them to place using jigsaw and orbital sander to meet all curves of the recesses on the FG floor. 

Easy to say, not easy to do. it was about 10-15 try-cut-sand-try-cut-send cycles per each of four pieces.

Templates after they was fit to places.

Based on my pretty short experience I found several areas on the cabin sole are uncomfortably slippery due to they are just glossy gelcoat. 

I decided to put no-skid paint in these ares.

All is ready to be painted with no-skid.

Under cabin table.

 

 Sloped floor part in the galley.

Area under navigation desk.

Sloped floor next to cabinet in front cabin.


 Floor in the shower


Cockpit

 Pedestal guard, finally installed.

Cabin sole (Day 179)

Final flooring (wood areas) will be STAINMASTER London Sky Oak Gray hard PVC flooring 

I intentionally made hard template to be able to make exact shape using router. After 3 hours of work i made all 4 pieces of flooring in shape.

Main trick was to keep them in one piece. I assembled floor on the bench put masking tape over top side seams, then turned bottom up and put duct tape from the bottom.  It give all locks locked tight and I was able to work with assembled pieces like they are solid,

I cut them with jigsaw with 0.25 inch margin and then route it to template exactly.

Installation was pretty straight forward. A lot of masking tape work to cover panels with brown paper, put tape on the edges, cut them flush.

then clean all surfaces with alcohol, put 3M 4200 FC sealant on the edges and lines in between.

then bring sandbags. A lot of sandbags, 15 bags of sand to load panel to the floor.


Cabin sole (Day after)




 













 

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