9 March 2012. Bilge of Diana (did you know Hunter 25s have a bilge?). These joists are all 5/4 mahogany, well-saturated in epoxy. None of them touch the actual bottom of the hull-- they are all spanned from side to side along the garboard. The forward one is doubled and supports the compression post. The middle one has cleats fore and aft, meant to support the table leg and the forward and after lift-out panels. The starboard side sole is installed-- this was just before I installed the other side. The piece atop the paint can that looks like 2/3 of a joist goes in the head compartment (top of pic). The awful yellow-brown stuff is spilled/dribbled/extra epoxy. The large patch at the aft end is a 'glass patch over old drainage holes. This will all be painted in Bilgekote.
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.
September 2011. Diana's bridge deck. I found this scrap of manufactured decking from the ruins of the 'Independence Cherubini' fiasco. The 2" teak planks come bonded edge-to-edge with Thiakol. I laminated this over a piece of 3/8" which was curved to (sort of) the crown of the cockpit seats. Prior to that I had filled in the lower section of the companionway hatch by laying up 'glass against the teak plywood of the inside, which I had left high here on purpose. The opening gets an ash threshold and new trim cheek pieces. The mainsheet traveler goes across the after edge of this little deck with a 2" wide backing plate and aluminum knees underneath. These in turn get masked by a facia board across the back which was originally going to house the compass; but I decided that was too far down to crane my old neck. It will have the engine start switch and switches for the instrument lights and the cockpit footlights however. So I may have the only Hunter 25 in the world with a teak deck! :)
2 March 2012. Diana's poop tank, installed in the aftmost compartment under the vee berth. This is a standard 9-gallon tank with the fittings installed witn 5200, same as I have done on C44s in the past. It sits on a shelf of Starboard. The holes in the boat's bottom are for all the seacocks (except the galley sink drain) and the low bulkheads to the sides are meant to contain muck and water in the event of a leak. The doughnuts lying in the bins are the backing plates-- solid vinylester fiberglass, cut-out from the access holes in the sides of Cherubini CC20 cockpits-- about the very best thing you can use for a seacock backing plate. The wood along the aft edge of the opening is a new (epoxied) cleat to catch the lift-out panel. To each side can be seen the CPVC vent lines for the tank-- in taking Peggy Hall's advice I made the lines rigid to avoid droops which collect goop as the boat heels. They lead up to SS through-hulls in the hull just under the toerail. The more air in the tank, the better!
9 March 2012. Bilge of Diana (did you know Hunter 25s have a bilge?). These joists are all 5/4 mahogany, well-saturated in epoxy. None of them touch the actual bottom of the hull-- they are all spanned from side to side along the garboard. The forward one is doubled and supports the compression post. The middle one has cleats fore and aft, meant to support the table leg and the forward and after lift-out panels. The starboard side sole is installed-- this was just before I installed the other side. The piece atop the paint can that looks like 2/3 of a joist goes in the head compartment (top of pic). The awful yellow-brown stuff is spilled/dribbled/extra epoxy. The large patch at the aft end is a 'glass patch over old drainage holes. This will all be painted in Bilgekote.
November 2011. Aft end of cabin showing 'ladder' and cooler cubbyhole. The access hole in the bottom of the cubby is to faciliate the cooler drain-- the white PVC receptacle leads into the bilge. The outboard sections of sole are installed-- awaiting paint and nonskid. The center section is just a hunk of plywood-- this will be mahogany plywood, varnished, later.
27 June 2012. This is an almost-fuzzy pic of the boom after I filled all the extraneous screwholes with aluminum screws and Loc-Tite and then broke them off and sanded them smooth. This is really the only way to fill holes in spars.
15 September 2012. Here is the overhead locker above the quarter berth with the first of the trimmed lift-out panels installed. All of this has to come apart again for finish paint; this is just the first one I did. I have to have a system for getting all these bits of trim cut straight and installed square. Notice the finger hole is at the bottom. They're all like that-- because you lift it UP to tug the bottom edge out to remove it.
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9 March 2012. Bilge of Diana (did you know Hunter 25s have a bilge?). These joists are all 5/4 mahogany, well-saturated in epoxy. None of them touch the actual bottom of the hull-- they are all spanned from side to side along the garboard. The forward one is doubled and supports the compression post. The middle one has cleats fore and aft, meant to support the table leg and the forward and after lift-out panels. The starboard side sole is installed-- this was just before I installed the other side. The piece atop the paint can that looks like 2/3 of a joist goes in the head compartment (top of pic). The awful yellow-brown stuff is spilled/dribbled/extra epoxy. The large patch at the aft end is a 'glass patch over old drainage holes. This will all be painted in Bilgekote.

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