Hello Everyone,
I was finally able to do some boat work this past week. We worked on decking the cockpit floor with the 5 bar tread plate, and cutting the hatch holes for my access plates. Hopefully these will let me hose out the bilge to some extent. The tread makes the flange fit up a bit of a pain as it all needs to be ground down for a tight fit. There are two pvc chase tubes mounted below deck that will let me run the fuel lines to the transom and the electrical stuff to the console. We also did the thru hull fittings for the scupper drains, the bilge pump outlet, and the seacock for the washdown. We were able to rent a Hypertherm 45 plasma cutter so it made cutouts so much easier. It pierces quite well, and once you figure out how to fence the torch head, you can get fairly straight cuts.
Here's some pictures:
Cockpit floor minus the removable plate over the fuel tanks.
Bomar Almag rectangle plate.
Rectangle plate with hatch cover removed.
Bomar Almag round plate.
Stainless scuppers with check balls. These are flush mounted in the deck so they should drain decent.
Scupper caps taken off.
I was finally able to do some boat work this past week. We worked on decking the cockpit floor with the 5 bar tread plate, and cutting the hatch holes for my access plates. Hopefully these will let me hose out the bilge to some extent. The tread makes the flange fit up a bit of a pain as it all needs to be ground down for a tight fit. There are two pvc chase tubes mounted below deck that will let me run the fuel lines to the transom and the electrical stuff to the console. We also did the thru hull fittings for the scupper drains, the bilge pump outlet, and the seacock for the washdown. We were able to rent a Hypertherm 45 plasma cutter so it made cutouts so much easier. It pierces quite well, and once you figure out how to fence the torch head, you can get fairly straight cuts.
Here's some pictures:
