Reply To: Mk 1 Rebuilt Advice

Hi Don,
Sounds like you will be busy for a while. The floor is not too critical. You can build almost whatever you like, that does the job.

The HTs had a variety of door frames, and you could convert to a rectangular one I guess but this might require some extra support for the mast step.

If yours is a curved laminate you will need to build another curved section. This is not particularly difficult. You first need to make a template to attach and build the laminates on. This could be made of thick poor quality ply board, joining enough together to make the thickness you need for the door frame (say 4 and a half inches). Then find yourself some hard wood in very thin section and bend it to fit the template, some steam might help here. Then glue and build the sections together to make the thickness you need tacking them together as you go. It is often built in two different woods, one dark the other lighter, so it looks pretty when finished. Use a good waterproof glue .

Thats it really. Good luck.

Geoff Linter