I finally finished doing the demo on the cockpit last night. I am holding off on framing the cockpit until I can get the engine out. I need to do a full rebuild on the the transmission and I want to do some work on the hull under the engine so out it comes. I am planniing on building a water tank under there both because the boat is a little light on water tankage and I want to reduce the depth of the bilge because I'm tired of losing tools into the black hole down there. After that construction and some cleaning and painting the engine will go back in and the cockpit will be built around it. Because I don't want to build the cockpit framing right now the next step is the aft cabin bulkhead I guess. While I have all that apart I will be upgrading the insulation for the icebox. There is room both on the engine side and below the box to at least double the amount of foam which should be enough for up here in the Northwest. I'll keep working and blogging and hopefully progressing fairly quickly.