Hardy Pilot bulkhead and toilet doors cut and need trimming and then edging and the rubbing strakes and gunwales been started

The Hardy Pilot toilet Bulkhead and doors are now cut and will be edged with teak edging before refitting into the boat once the cabin and hull linings are refitted to the boat.

The hull carpets are now cut ready to be glued back in position and the small bulkhead panel is covered in the same hull carpeting as it was originally done. 

The gunwales and rubbing strakes are now down to their finished width and depth and will now have an routered edge put on the outer edges top and bottom 

The floorboards are being made up and just need the edges run over with a router to take the sharp edges off them before they are made up.

 

Setting out the floorboards and finally sealing the Forward and aft seats

Setting out the floorboards position in the bottom of the boat so that we can make up the floorboards 

There is going to be a good size area of floorboards as the bottom of the hull is fairly flat

The last of the fibreglassing is now done of the seats, so the seat are going to be part of the boat's buoyancy as well as seating within the boat. 

 

The seats are now getting glassed in position and while the fibreglass is almost cured cut back to a neat line

Fibreglassing in along the top edge of the both the forward and aft seats 

While the fibreglass is curing it is possible to cut along the edge of the fibreglass to cut a neat edge along the top of the seats 

Once all the fibreglassing is done on the seats the fibreglass will get a coat of grey flow coat to seal the surface and make the seat watertight.

fitting the keel infill and outboard pad and setting up the forward and aft seats

In order to fix the floor boards down in position, there was a timber infill fixed in the keel channel which was epoxied in position.

The outboard inner pad shaped and fixed in position with thickened epoxy 

The forward seat being set up in position with the aid of a chock at the base and leveled up 

The last part of the infill glassed over to seal in the infill

The outboard pad being glassed over and then the aft seat can be put in position using the same method as the forward seat with a chock temporarily fix to the infill, so while it is glassed in position it will not move out of position 

The aft seat like the forward seat masked up ready for the seat to be glassed in position and then the matting can be trimmed  

 

Fitting the ash inner keel and shaping the outboard pad

Fitting the infill for the keel to which the floorboards will be held down when it is glassed over and the turnbuckle is made to hold the centre of the floorboards

Shaping up the outboard pad which will be fixed in position with epoxy and then glassed over before the aft seat in glassed in place.