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  • 23rd August 2009 at 6:07 pm #11074

      We’ve just completed the voyage from Florida with our Mk 1, The Dash. The trip up the Intercoastal Waterway was fairly uneventful, but unfortunately we were pressing all the time and didn’t stay very long at any of the great little towns in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. We now want to tackle a few of the “cosmetic” (optimistic view) jobs on our to-do list. Looking for a little advice on our first two:
      1) The main cabin door inside frame has significant rot. The 4 inch wide laminate that defined the curve has been removed. Does anyone have advice for rebuilding this area?
      2) When you step through the main door, you step directly on the inside of the nacelle. We put down a temporary 1ft by 1ft board to give us something flat to “land on”. Toward the port side, the nacelle just curves up to the flat area and then down into the galley. On the starboard side, where the nacelle meets the flat area, a 4 in wide thin board sticks out in mid-air, with no clue as to how it fit into the original scheme of things. Could someone tell me how this area was originally configured and any advice on the best way to set it up now?
      Thanks in advance for your input.

      Don

      25th August 2009 at 8:39 am #11819

        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

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