ideas for finishing the headliner of aft berths c27

svBlueLagoon · Jan 30, 2017

The are a couple of options.
1. Go to a fabric outlet store and find headliner material. I sprayed glued the headliner on 1/8 inch door skin. I pre-treated the door skin with Smith before gluing the headliner.
2 Second option is to use wood or PVC ceiling material. I also have used 5 1/2 inch PVC ceiling bead board material. It comes in 8 foot length and install with wood battens and silicon. If you prefer 2 1/2 inch slats, it comes in a 4 x 8 ft sheet that you can cut and install the same way as single slats.
3. I have know a few people just fiber glass smooth and paint the overhead. I am not that good with fiber glass.
Cheers!

Ted · Jan 30, 2017

Welcome! After a good scrubbing, a couple of coats of good quality paint will make those areas look better and it will be easy to clean. Some builders have covered the raw fiberglass with a heavy duty, commercial grade vinyl wallcover material or a carpet like material. It is difficult to install these because of the compound curves of the boat but it's doable. The problem with the carpet materials is that they will eventually get mold and mildew which is not as easy to clean as a painted surface or vinyl wall covering. If you're really ambitious, you can fabricate removable, light weight panels of wood to access certain areas in the future. A combination of panels and smooth surfaces may be the most visually pleasing while keeping the scope of the project more manageable.

SwitchintoglideIII · Jan 31, 2017

rebecca64 said:
so a combo of panels and glued liner and it sounds like vinyl vs some sort of textured/carpet material is the way to go. i will be painting the boat interior and am searching for the right product for that as well. thoughts on that?

Or this way...PVC strapping adhered with 3M 5200. Perforated headliner then gently stretched and fasted via SS screws and screw caps. Edges shown were pushed into slotted PVC strips and 1/8" nylon line was inserted to hold in place....Works well to have the edges removable to access a good portion of the underside of the deck.

philwsailz · Jan 31, 2017

I was going to recommend fitted panels, wrapped in vinyl and then snapped in place with normal old canvas snaps. Sounds like there are some good alternate ideas being floated here as well.

The one thing I would have against painting back in there is the fact that after you are done you will still see all the bits and wires that are back in there. Some snap in rigid panels would go a long way towards hiding those...

philwsailz · Jan 31, 2017

I like SwitchingtoGlide's head-liner approach. Very sanitary!

CloudDiver · Jan 31, 2017

rebecca64 said:
so a combo of panels and glued liner and it sounds like vinyl vs some sort of textured/carpet material is the way to go. i will be painting the boat interior and am searching for the right product for that as well. thoughts on that?

Don't paint your C-27 interior if you can avoid it. Believe it or not, the glossy gelocated areas of the interior are easier to refurbish and polish than they are to paint. For those areas above the aft quarter berths you have pictured, yes you can paint those and its a good idea to paint them even if you plan to do a covering later. I have a C22, but in the similar area of my boat there is the same type of factory paint that Catalina used. I noticed acetone cleans it up very well and also softens it, then I painted it with Interlux Bilge Coat gloss white. Believe it or not if you buy that paint by the gallon it is cheap compared to even Rustoelum. A nice gloss white will brighten it up and then you can take your time with figuring out and installing the fabric panels.

SwitchintoglideIII · Feb 1, 2017

rebecca64 said:
switchingtoglide, ive been studying these pics like crazy. so you glued the strips of pvc, then folded and screwed the vinyl into them. what's that area where it looks like you stapled the vinyl? did you staple one section of vinyl to the pvc strip then tuck/fold the joining vinyl and place the screws?
where did you get the plain and slotted strips? and what size of those?
--i had in my head something similar to this with velcro and i was considering sunbrella, but this is far nicer.

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Hi Rebecca...you are correct with assumptions.
The sections that I stapled (with SS staples)...we're going to be covered by a pre-existing fiberglass hardliner, shown in the pic below.
Both the .5"x 1.5" PVC strapping and the slotted PVC were purchased from Home Depot...easy on the pocket book.
The edges that are exposed, I cut thin strips of .020" PVC, about .5" wide buy whatever length necessary, and folded them into the liner for an ice rigid finished edge then screwed .5" SS srews, including the little plastic bases to snap the screw caps to. Also from Home Depot. these unfortunately weren't cheap, so I purchased them in bulk with an Amazon order.

SwitchintoglideIII · Feb 1, 2017

Rebecca, here is a link to more pics....may help.
https://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?threads/complete-refurb-78-c-c-mega-30.160540/

SwitchintoglideIII · Feb 1, 2017

rebecca64 said:
is this the slotted strip? it's vinyl tho....
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sequentia-..._clickID=faa26bab-a02d-4625-910a-09791261a2d3

Close...actually this.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sequentia-8-ft-Wall-Panel-Moulding/3060139

SwitchintoglideIII · Feb 1, 2017

Lol....use those of us who have done this stuff inspire you, one small project at a time added together equals one big successful endeavour!

Here is the PVC door jam I was referring to...
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.pvc-door-stop-38-in-x-1-14-in-x-7-ft.1000421400.html

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