Summary
(please click on any of the pictures for a larger one - use the BACK button to come back)
This is the construction and ideas page for the V-Berth portion of the boat. The page could get quite long by the time I am completely finished. It will be continuously updated with progress pictures along the way.
This was the starting point. (I like the fan and wiring -- NOT!)
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The first thing I did was cut out some new lockers. There was a tremendous amount of UNUSED space under the hull liner.
After cutting the holes (3 new ones), I cut a plywood "lip" for each of them, and epoxied AND through-bolted them to the underside of the liner.
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Inside the new lockers, I glassed 1/2" plywood cleats to all vertical surfaces. This is because I don't know how I'll be using this space at the moment, and this allows me to screw shelves, fishing rod holders, or whatever along the inside.
This picture is before prepping and painting inside (or cleaning up the plywood hatch cover lip!).
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Here is the whole vberth area prepped for painting and woodwork.
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Here is the painted version! |
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While I was in there, I glassed some cleats to the sides of the hull and liner so that later I could put fishing rod holders, pole holders, shelves, or whatever I decided in here. |
Woodwork is finished in the vberth area! All we need now are some cushions and pillows. I wrapped the mast compression post because the paint was pretty beat up on it. |
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Trying a wide angle shot.......
New hatch rings. |
I made some teak porthole rings and shelves for each side. |
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And a picture of the teak trim rings, each cobbled together from 16 separate pieces of teak! This is becoming a far too common practice! |
And a picture with the new cushions in place!
The pieces were sized to the cutouts below (within reason) so you didn't have to move so much cushion to get to one of the hatches.
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Lessons Learned
It is very hard to plan ahead of time how you will use an entire boat's space. Instead, plan for flexibility and easy access.
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