19 September 2012. Right after I got the last of the bottom down to well-sanded gelcoat. I love this pic-- the boat looks about ready to fly off the stands. What a terrific hull shape this little boat has. (The bow is at a 60-degree angle to the waterline. This is my dad's trademark with the early Hunters.)
31 July 2012. The very cool customized Igloo 5-day campers'-spec cooler. There is much more detail about this on the blog; but the plexiglass divider and grille are meant to contain cube ice while still leaving a space in front for tall items like milk and iced tea. The step of the ladder is hinged to allow one to lift the cooler lid.
15 September 2012. Photo taken in the dark of my cute little mast step. Originally the boat's hatch shroud had a rounded front and a flat section moulded into it for the mast to stand on. I hated this for two reasons-- it's a Band-Aid over a bigger problem, which is having the mast stand on cored deck; and it doesn't allow one to ever take the hatch shroud off without unstepping the rig. I am cutting off the old shroud and building an old-fashioned mahogany spray board on the front of it-- and my latest brainchild is to include a Dorade box to each forward corner. The one to starboard will house a 12vdc fan; the one to port will house the 12vdc horn and deck outlet (the same as on C44s and C48s!). This was fabricated out of solid 1/2" G-10 plate and will be filled with epoxy mixed with microfibers and then provided with a healthy fillet all around. On top of it goes the halyard-block organizer and the aluminum mast step I am making.
15 September 2012. Not the best picture of the coaming alongside of the companionway hatch. This mahogany butts into the molded coaming just forward and provides a hand-hold, a water dam and a place on which I can mount the dodger rail's feet. The halyard winches go outboard, port and starboard.
19 September 2012. Right after I got the last of the bottom down to well-sanded gelcoat. I love this pic-- the boat looks about ready to fly off the stands. What a terrific hull shape this little boat has. (The bow is at a 60-degree angle to the waterline. This is my dad's trademark with the early Hunters.)
25 August 2012. Under threat of rain all week I replaced the cockpit drains one and a time, so as to always have one active. The old ones were in the back bulkhead of the cockpit; they are patched in this picture. I would have liked the new fittings I got to have been stainless; the brass will go green in short order. But I may yet paint them in epoxy paint-- or just Krylon. I found these little fittings at Ferguson Plumbing and discovered my Forespar Marelon elbows screw on very nicely-- even a little too loosely; so they're loaded up with Teflon tape.
14 April 2012. As I was stripping the bottom I noticed these ancient runes. I am no Hobbit and am unable to translate them. (They are cracks in the gelcoat. The hull is not wet however and sanding and Pettit Protect will resolve this.)
16 November 2011. The 'Wire-O-Matic', the only sane solution for running wiring really anywhere. I made this one out of an extra Tempo battery box, drilling it to accept a piece of 1/2" CPVC which is held in by 1/4" clevis pins and even circ-clips. We've made them out of cardboard boxes at the shop-- but always it has to have a magic-marker label on it calling it the 'Wire-O-Matic' (or 'Hose-O-Matic' or 'Rope-O-Matic'). Obviously I have been sharing ground returns on some of these circuits-- using twice as much red as yellow.
DianaOfBurlington

19 September 2012. Right after I got the last of the bottom down to well-sanded gelcoat. I love this pic-- the boat looks about ready to fly off the stands. What a terrific hull shape this little boat has. (The bow is at a 60-degree angle to the waterline. This is my dad's trademark with the early Hunters.)

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