Wheelhouse panelling

Insulated the wheelhouse & now panelling it, i should be finished with this next week..

Toilet next step....

The vinyl floor is in, hose & fan are in place so the final work on this will be the full plasti-dip of the inside with oak wood trim for skirting boards & corners, this looks like a small job but was very time consuming. The engine room air intake hose enters the toilet space & exits above the toilet unit through the bulkhed then straight down & into the engine room.

The toilet floor

Wooden toilet floor has been screwed down, I had a practice "sit" & found that the best position for the crapper was diagonal to get my knees in.....

A vinyl floor, paint & hanging pictures will follow to turn it into a contemplation room ;-)

Updates

Now the boat's back on land for the Winter I'm doing some more 'fixing', I took out the wood burning stove and am building a toilet room in that space. I also insulated the wheelhouse and fitted a set of double Vetus diesel filters and a sight gauge/pipe for the fuel tank. All of the water has been removed from the bilge so I will degrease it and paint it white again, once this is done I'll install two LARGE new bilge pumps.

Future water tanks

I've just cleaned these drums & will be using them in the future as water tanks. As I need ballast in the boat they should be a great help...

With the tank that I have, plus these eight, I will have 1160 liters of fresh water available onboard! 

Winter approaching!

Lifted the boat out on Monday, the hull was jetwashed and I flushed the engine through with a 50/50 mix of glycol/water. Batteries are out and everything is ready for the winter, I re-sealed the wheelhouse windows with silicone & i'll be working on the boat through the winter as I have my little generator to supply power. Bad news was that the marina don't allow blasting of the hull so i'll need a springtime haulout or dress it up & repaint it for one more year then next winter put it in a marina which will allow blasting.....

Update on work

I have replaced the wooden blank for a nice new Bomar Skylight over the aft cabin & the wood burning stove has now been rubbed down & sprayed black. 

Tomorrow the sink & double gas burners will be fitted and then I'll be moving on to insulating around the windows before the last of the panelling goes up. Following that I'll paint the whole wheelhouse & teak trim all edges & corners.

I bought a comfortable hydraulically damped swivelling bar stool which i'll use while steering...