Time to show  the new interior. Welcome on the board.     General. Almost all plywood in the interior replaced with couple exclusions - Port side part of main bulkhead, walls around the head, 3 panels left in galley cabinets and some solid wood trimming parts. New starboard main bulkhead mounted. Floor replaced with high quality hard PVC flooring.  All gelcoat (white) inside is slightly sanded to refresh it and clean of "ups" epoxy drops paint and 46 years weathering, polished and waxed. Galley New galley countertop, completely rebuilt all rebuilt galley cabinets. Added drawer under stove cavity. "cap board" rebuilt, shelves have roulette doors now, Big rolling out  drawer added under the cockpit sit. New combined electric panel. Icebox rebuilt to built in refrigerator. Microwave installed on the stove gimbaled shelf under the LPG cooking surface.  Plenty of 110V outlets  mounted to avoid any splitters.    Nav desk rebuilt, Installed na...

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...

Interior Removing old Teak and holly plywood from the floor. It was mostly de-laminated and rotted in about 50% of surface. Galley floor in process Younger son provided great help today Whole floor cleaned up from wood. Windlass. Windlass battery strapped down. Pulled out chain and marked 40, 60 and 80 feet points with pieces of webbing to make length tabs Engine room.  Glassing "the shelf" over the opening originally left by builders. This area was just a hole opened directly from engine room to cabin. Result engine room wall was just "in air" and any water splashed in this area will be ended pilot berth really wet.. Another thing which had to be addressed - the bulkhead to deck connection. it was very weak and bulkhead traveled about an inch side to side when any load applied to steering. I am not sure the stiffening this joint this way is right thing to do, but i hope it will provide some support to bulkhead. it si to side direction.excessive glass should be cut...

I planned a long, productive day, but it appeared a very short, However some things was done. Interior Cabin sole Cabin sole floor demolishing started. leftovers of water damaged plywood removed from the front cabin. My younger son helped a lot. Main cabin and galley left to do. We found the original Teak&holy floor was just decorative, it was 1/4" thick or even thinner. <<picture will update later>> I am looking for options to make PVC flooring, likely I will do it with rigid locking planks, like laminate floor, but PVC Cabin table  Checked how it fits the slipping place  to be set as sleeping platform.   It is nice, is not? However when I made it I  did "little improvement", I mare corners radius the same and make exact 90 degrees corner. Now I know  I had to make it EXACT as original one. I appeared it does not fit to place as it should to be a part of sleeping platform. It has a 1/2" gap and holding ribs are about 3/4, so, it will not sit tig...