Head lining progress

Over the last weekend at home I carried on with lining the ply head lining panels as this was a clean operation I got to do it indoors in the warm, using the ply panels as a template I marked out the material using some dressmakers/tailors chalk, which my wife offered, I allowed a 50mm border to fold around the edge of the panel.

Aft cabin panel

Overlap marked with tailors chalk

Once the material had been cut out it and the ply was sprayed with the Trimfix adhesive, this operation was obviously not carried out indoors, and put aside for a few minutes to dry. Once dry the material was layed face down on a level surface, the conservatory floor, and the ply panel placed in the correct position and pressed down all over. As Trimfix is a contact adhesive I had marked a couple of points on the material which would coincide with the corners of the ply panel to help get the panel in the correct position as you only get one shot with the Trimfix it bonds instantly.

Panel bonded to the material

I then applied Trimfix around the back edge of the ply panel and folded the material over and pressed it down.

Completed aft cabin panel

Completed fore cabin roof panel

The carpet stretches easily around most of the curves encountered but a couple of vee cut outs were required on the more tightly curved corners on the fore cabin roof panel.

So far I have completed most of the fore cabin head lining it just needs the two small panels which fit under the side decks I thought that I had found the ply panels but on checking today they don't seem to fit but I cannot find anywhere else where they might fit needs some further investigation, the aft cabin panel which fits under the aft deck is now in place together with the saloon coach roof side lining.

Fore cabin

Saloon

I have identified and checked the fit of the panels which fit under the side decks in the aft cabin these will be lined  along with the coach roof sides in the aft cabin as the next phase of the job after which I need to make some new ply panels for the saloon and aft cabin deck heads the salon will be a bit tricky due to its size making the panel a bit floppy to deal with. So far I am quite pleased with the way this job has gone I have never done this before so it was started with some trepidation I think having the overhead lining on ply panels makes the job much easier than trying to stick the lining directly onto the roof particularly in the larger areas and working single handed its much easier to lay the material face down on a flat surface and place the panel onto it.

As an aside I went down to the boatyard on Sunday morning to find that storm Angus had shredded the tarpaulin cover, it was on its last legs and well worn when I was given it, several spares came with the boat. However the associated rain did show up a leak where the mushroom vent is secured to the fore hatch, I have recently resealed the hatch glazing but never gave a thought to the vent and so the vent will need to be removed and resealed.