I am varying the window layout on our new Didi 40 Cr. It will be a quite conservative arrangement but one that has been used on many production yachts. To check the visual appeal before ordering the windows I made up some mock windows from cardboard and cellophane and stuck them to the cabin sides. It was a useful exercise which resulted in me moving the positions around a little for a better look.
Friday was a big day with Kevin giving me a hand to glue in the cabin sides. There are two scarf joins in each side and these had to be glued in situ. To ensure a clean join we covered the joins with baking paper and screwed backing pieces of 12 mm plywood across the four joins. Today was a big clean up day with lots of sanding of excess glue and trimming of the excess plywood on the sides. Later today there was the final fairing of the cabin top beams and the shaping of the beam clamp at the edge of the cabin top. It is all done and I fitted a panel of 6 mm plywood to the cabin top to check all the contact surfaces. It is looking good to start the first 6 mm plywood layer on the roof on Monday.
Checking window spacing on our Didi 40 Cr
Bow end view of the window spacing trial