Ah, after hours and hours of milling lumber for the ceiling, sole, port and starboard saloon seat framing…we’ve begun to get something in the boat that looks suspiciously like a saloon seat taking shape (rather than simply the old water tank piled up with stuff!)

Here’s some progress pictures. The first is of the boards David made from a big teak board. The work was done at the North Island wood shop.

The next picture is of the Alaskan Yellow Cedar ceiling

Then, a picture of David fishing a dropped fastener from the bilge. The project of that day was installing new teak sole board along the edge of the existing teak sole boards.

The new (light color) teak sole can be seen along the new raise panel Sapele construction of the starboard saloon seat shaping up here. Every one of those face panels are trapezoids due to the slant of the sole. Not a rectangle to be found.

It is exciting that with the sole in and the overhead in place, the sawdust doesn’t have opportunity to go into the bilge!

David hard at work on the aft corner…critical cuts…

Now, after that cut, all we need are bungs, some sanding and varnish. David is relieved…the work is into Brenda’s hands now.

By golly, it looks like a seat base is shaping up there