Even more headlining

On Monday morning I started by putting some additional timber to support the headlining panel in the quarter berth and once this was complete I did some final fitting to the aft head lining panel for the starboard side of the saloon I had originally made the panels for this area in two parts some time ago. I had decided to make them in two parts to make fitting a bit easier. I had ordered the lining carpet last weekend and it arrived on Tuesday so that first thing on Wednesday morning I could get on with covering the starboard aft panel, the small panel for the bookshelf and the panel for the quarter berth this just left a small area of the aft saloon bulkhead to be covered and once this was done I could fit the small panel for the bookshelf and the starboard aft overhead panel.

Starboard side saloon just the forward overhead panel to fit

The first job today was to line the inboard longitudinal bulkhead in the quarter berth this turned out to be a bit of an awkward job as the lining has to go behind the water tank filling pipe but I succeeded by coating the whole bulkhead with adhesive and then coating the lower 200mm of the carpet and once it had gone tacky I secured the lower edge and then sprayed adhesive onto the next 200mm  and so on until I reached the top, I used the same method for the long length on the starboard side of the saloon which made fitting a lot easier, it is easy to get into a sticky mess when lining vertical surfaces by applying carpet direct to the surface I find using panels for overhead surfaces much easier as I can lay the carpet on a flat surface sticky side up and then just place the panel straight down on it. I finished off the job by fitting the previously lined overhead panel into the quarter berth.

Quarter berth overhead panel

Getting a good photograph in the quarter berth is just about impossible, the aft bulkhead still needs to be tidied up and it also needs a new door to be manufactured and fitted to the void space.On the homework front I have been able to get two coats of gloss white paint on the backs of the various locker doors during this week so that I should be able to progress these items a bit further this weekend