Internal Fitout - Ready to Install

Yesterday proved to be one of those rare days where everything was conducive to my boatbuilding aspirations. Nice cloudy day with temperatures in the low 20s, house pretty much all to myself and no school runs or errands to do all day. I was able to really get stuck in, and I'm stoked to say that I made heaps of progress.

After getting set up again it was time to suss out the steering pedal system. 

The pedals are supposed to be about 200mm (8") below seat height.

I measured out and drilled the holes for the adjustable side rails.

So far so good.

Because the side rails aren't exactly parallel I decided to make the cross bar holes into slots. 

I reckon this should work fine. 

Next I had some fun leaning how to use a plunge router (never used one before), and ended up radiusing the for and aft edges of the seats. Still need a bit of a final sand, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Thanks for the loan of the router Phil.

Then I re-did the forward saddles for the wae there. All good now. 

Then it was time to tackle the seat set up. After fiddling and wrangling for ages, I've eventually decided that I won't be keeping the seat stringers full length after all. I'll still make the aft seat adjustable though. It all took a fair while to work out, but I think I've got it all sorted now. 

I've drilled holes for three separate positions, which took some head-scratching given the taper of the rails. All seems to work ok now. 

I finished quite late in the day, but I'm so happy to get where I now am. The next bit is the exciting one of installing all of these components. I've so far got all of next week off, but the weather is predicted to be very hot. Fingers crossed I'll be able to get it all done. I'm stinging to get onto the decks. 

BTW I got a good reminder as to the hazards of using epoxy after the last activity sessions. My shins suddenly got real itchy and these sores suddenly erupted. I can only put it down to epoxy dust from sanding the forward bulkhead (I was wearing shorts). Going to be way more careful form now on.