Enclosing the back of the plotter

The first job on Monday morning was to fit the last piece of corner trim in the forward cabin I had roughed it out over the weekend so it just took a little bit of final fitting.

The final piece on the starboard side

After the final piece of trim was fitted there was time to potter off down the creek for a couple of hours, there was not a lot of wind but I managed to drift down as far as the entrance to Milton Creek, unfortunately the County Council built a new road bridge across the entrance with a fixed bridge so the only access is for motor boats these days.

The next project is to tidy up the back of the cockpit bulkhead in way of the chart plotter etc. It has been one of those jobs I have been meaning to get stuck into for some time as one of my pet hates is yards of exposed cabling.

Back of the cockpit bulkhead

The plan is to build an enclosure around the area with a hinged access door, the door will be the same pattern as the other recently completed locker doors. The enclosure will be built in ply lined with some of the laminate used on the rest of the bulkheads etc. Over the last weekend I sorted through my stock of ply and laminate etc and found sufficient for the job, so for the remainder of this week I have been putting some of the pieces together.

First piece of the enclosure

The original reason for the chamfer at the bottom of the enclosure was that I didn't have a large enough piece of laminate to line the whole front, this was one of the reasons I hadn't done anything with this job I was still thinking of a way round the shortage of material, it finally came to me over the weekend. The chamfer also has the advantage that it will make the enclosure much less obtrusive. I have cut and shaped the piece of ply for the bottom edge of the enclosure and over the weekend the homework job will be to get some of the pieces assembled