Not much to show for a week of working on the project because it is all fiddly work fitting shelves and filleting and glassing them to the hull to make a strong box structure to support the chainplates. I have now glassed all the shelves in the photo to the hull on both sides of the boat. I need to fit timber cleats around the lip of each shelve to glue the settee backs in place. The settee backs are already cut to size and fitted but I intend to paint the inside of these storage spaces and the backsides of the settee plywood before gluing them in for good.
Plywood shelves to be glassed to the hull to form a box structure to support the chainplates
One other task completed was the “P” bracket support inside the hull. The inboard end of the bronze bracket is now encased in two substantial plywood blocks which are bolted together through a frame.