Today was the day I managed to start working on the cockpit. It is not too difficult, the cutting part, but it does require some planning as there are many corners and joints. I'm trying to make sure the joints will be load bearing in the direction that most makes sense for the particular joint.
I have cut out some venting holes:
The surfaces that will be walked on (and jumped on from the cabin top) will be reinforced with some beams - the design specifies 8mm plywood for all surfaces here and does not call for any bracing - I don't know, the 8mm ply seems a bit too thin to leave like that. It will gain some additional strength after it is glassed over, but I'm going to reinforce everything anyway. I will not be installing those before at least drilling the holes for the lower rudder gudgeon as it will be a pain trying to reach the transom through the vents in the bulkhead after everything is closed up.
The whole thing came out very symmetric, I could use the pattern I made for one side for making both pieces with a very good fit so, again, stressing out over the layout and the dimensions of the frames payed out again.
Tomorrow I'll start gluing everything up, but it looks like It will take more than 1 day as I want to cut some more limber holes in the side assemblies.
ciao.
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