Bow berth remove fabric ceilings & install wood battens

[william24424]

1- Ash battens, (Boulters lumber MA) 2- Epoxy stringers to hull 3- Followed line of shelves (nothing on boat is square) 4- I will update post when finished.
So far, fabric rip out easy, one coat varnish on battens, stringers are epoxied and tabbed into place approx. 19" O/C +or- , battens = stainless screwed in place....when I finish I will countersink and fill holes. No big problems yet....the hull surface wasn't smooth. Boat hooks, scrap lumber, & other innovations were used to put pressure on stringers when drying glue. (PITA) Lots of time spent essentially for a small part of the boat, however, I spent lot's of money on a tiny bathroom in my house....and so I move on & will show photos when finished. Have a nice weekend. Questions? Comments? Advice?

 

[berner73]

Even now that looks really good, wait until it's done.

How closely does the ash from Boulter match the existing battens in the cabin?
Did you have to sand a lot of adhesive off the hull after removing the liner - are the stringers just epoxied or did you glass them in too?
What did you paint the vertical stringers with?

 

[FastOlson]

To make searching easier, you might want to change your nomenclature to read "ceilings" rather than battens.
Nice work you have done; I have removed the OEM woven-fabric hull ceilings in our forepeak and replaced with half inch honeycomb. The look is much better than the factory fabric & the insulation is nice to have.

 

[Tally Ho]

….and replaced with half inch honeycomb. The look is much better & the insulation is nice to have.

What sort of material is honeycomb? A type of insulation? Did you cover it?
Link? Or Photos?

Greg

 

[william24424]

Even now that looks really good, wait until it's done.

How closely does the ash from Boulter match the existing battens in the cabin?
Did you have to sand a lot of adhesive off the hull after removing the liner - are the stringers just epoxied or did you glass them in too?
What did you paint the vertical stringers with?

-Boulter's ash was perfect match, however, the salon & bow berth are separated by head & cabinets so exact match wasn't needed.
-I used a rustoleum ultra cover 2x white paint for vertical stringers, no compelling reason just thought it's good to protect bare wood.
-not too much adhesive needed removing because pad/fabric was removed then replaced and very lightly glued.
-I glassed in tabs thinking it would add strength, I was going to glass in entire stringers, but thought it felt strong enough

 

[FastOlson]

What sort of material is honeycomb? A type of insulation? Did you cover it?
Link? Or Photos?

Greg

Half inch honeycomb, thin frp skins both sides. Alas, nowadays you would have to pay retail, but years ago we could buy the "scrap" pieces from the former Boeing Surplus Store in Kent WA. Fifty cents a pound... !
They use oodles of it for the interior partitions of their jet liners. The scrap pieces would have some odd openings and fastening holes from the CAD/CAM process, but these could be filled with lightweight poly filler. Marvelous stuff.
Here are some pix from my blog. Note that they were selling glass fiber facing and carbon fiber facing. I used both. Formica covered it all when finished, so color and filler material did not matter. These were adhered to the hull with epoxy.

Note that this is not "better" than the method used by another poster, just different. Ours is extremely light weight (and insulated) as befits a lightweight boat.
Note B: rear teak panel behind the anchor locker was not trimmed out when this photo was taken.