Starting the cabin

Time now to build the cabin. The process of getting the roof profile is tricky especially as I have to repeat it exactly for the next hull.

Going off the plans, I drew a grid and copied the intersecting locations on the grid to get the roof profile and then screwed two pieces of ply together to cut out a matching piece for the starboard hull at the same time.

I now have a lot of pieces ready to go for hull number 2. It will be interesting to see how much less time it takes.

With the cabin starting to take shape I can get a feel for how much room will be in there. There should be plenty of room for overnighting and more. It is probably the most space you could reasonably expect to have in an open deck cat this size.

The back

The aft deck has is now almost finished.

The Rudder gudgeons are fixed in place and the deck is reinforced for the beam loads. The beam mounts are not on yet. Because the hulls are not being built at the same time I might wait until both hulls are finished before adding the beam mounts so I can get the alignment exact. I will likely add an outboard mount to the inboard side here also, but it might wait also until the other hull is finished as it's location is partly dictated by the beam location.