A sneak peek at the workshop and the forward most bulkhead.

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Here we are making templates to see if what we planned is what we really want. If all is well then the template is already done for all the ply.... its just a matter of cut, treat, and place.

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With weather improving on average, its time to take the hatches seriously.

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Insulation, ahh insulation. I wonder if I was temporarily insane to not use spray on foam... we have been cutting and gluing for sooo long. But I don't regret it... the end result pays for the time spent. But its one of those invisible jobs... there's a ton of those on a boat, they need to be done, yet nobody will know it was done.
Unless you've done this before.... in which case you have my sympathy.

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Well, we are still working on the insulation, and have been for about a month and a bit. Despite how long that seems compared to the simple spray on foam, we feel we're going faster than we anticipated. Its actually very satisfying to feel the boat becoming more temperature and sound stable. It looks good to... not that we'll be able to see it once the interior is build over it.
She feels so much smaller inside now, the depth of the shiny aluminum now being covered with the black foam.... but with the winter wind and rain blowing outside its already cozy in there!

What you see on this entry's picture is the first layer, tucked between the frames and stringers. On top of this goes an equally thick second layer that fills right up under the T of the frame. It labor intensive and easy to make mistakes, but we won't regret it.

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Here you can see our temporary floor and some insulation on the keel well. Its the first layer you see which is about 32mm thick, the second layer will also be 32mm. This will give us a tremendous amount of insulation (an advantage in both cold and warm climates.) The only disadvantage is how long its going to take to cut each panel and glue it in place. I'm not going to mention our Square Meter per hour rate.... its pitiful. :)

But it will be worth it... a temperature test at mid day on a not so hot day (for here that is) put the deck at 50 celsius and the inside of the insulation at 37. So add another layer and take away the ambient temperature caused by the uninsulated areas, we will have a very stable interior temperature.

Out the companionway you can see the pine tree that sits just two meters aft of the stern. It gives a rather cozy feel when having tea time in the cockpit, but the needles all over the place are beginning to get on our nerves. At least winter is here, so the shedding will reduce.... I hope.

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