Honey-Coloured Bunks Shape the Lower Hull

It is of course still to be properly fitted - why I cannot do that yet you have to explained in detail in previous post - but it is so good to end this week, just few hours before the Shabbat, seeing how the whole lower hull will look like.

Ok, not the whole. But technically bunks in the main cabin belong as much to the upper hull as they do to the lower one :)

I couldn’t cut them before all the elements dried and hardened enough to not be affected by small wood particles from cutting and sanding. So that will be my Sunday morning job. And for now I can enjoy the look of the hulls with its honey-coloured bunks and floors in every part.

Next week more bulkhead cutting, if I have enough epoxy left to fit bunks in the main cabin - as after fitting the these main cabin bunks/seats there will be time to finally connect both of the largest spaces between bulkheads 4-6 into a single cabin.

Yes, the main cabins on tiki 38 are quite big actually, they are full 4 meters long - which means they are more than 1/3 of the entire hull’s length! It will be amazing to actually walk along them in just few days time!

Next job on the list for the last week of July is simple. Draw and cut upper hull bulkheads 1, 4 , 6 and 8. Prepare them, epoxy them if I have enough epoxy for this job and get ready to be fitted. Also, cut stem and stern posts - the top parts.

In short - in the next week I’m getting ready to work on the upper part of the hulls and move into much heavier materials. Upper bulkheads are made of 12mm plywood and beam throughs are made with solid pieces of 45x32 mm Douglas fir to reinforce them. Quite a step up from 9 mm plywood and 45x19 fir I was working with till now.

Cannot wait to switch again to 9mm and later to 4mm. That will mean I’m putting hull sides and decks. And that’s quite short time from getting the hulls out into the open for the very first time. Something we were waiting for long three years…