Interior carpentry: building the nav station

It's been hard getting things done while the boat's been outside. She was way back in the yard, wedged into a snowbank, and it was treacherous getting aboard through the shrink-wrap door. Nonetheless, Neil manages to do quite a bit! The navigation station is starting to take shape. It was undoubtedly the most complicated carpentry project we faced, with it's many odd angles, and Neil was hesitant to start it. But once he did, it came together quickly. It looks BEAUTIFUL!

Neil devised a system to scribe the hull to make the pieces fit perfectly. He made mock-ups of plywood to make sure everything was right, and then cut the pieces out of12mm teak-faced plywood. For trim we're using purchased AFI teak molding. We designed the nav area to make optimum use of every inch of space and to house all of our electrical and electronic equipment. There's a storage space under the nav seat, and a cubby next to it, against the hull. Neil even lined the cubby with teak! Here is a picture of the "work in progress". The fiddles haven't yet been added to the nav seat, and obviously the electrical panel isn't yet installed, nor is the trim. The radio shelf will get a teak face with the radios set into it. Below it will be a bookshelf. There'll be a cabinet under the desk housing the refrigerator compressor as well as charts, etc.