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Side Decks
Terri helped pound ring nails in to secure the side decks. I put some waterproof RTV in between the deck and coaming to keep water out. I will putty the nail heads and get the deck ready for painting.
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Hi Steve,
I'm worried about the height of those coamings. When you sail small boats, you have to sit up on the sides and hike out to keep them flat. You won't be able to do that with those high coamings. If you made them about an inch high and three inches wide, with rounded edges, then you could site on them and slide over them to sit on the deck when needed. You could do that by just adding a 1x3 inch thick piece of wood along the side of the coaming and then cut/plane it down to be the same height.
What does it show in the plans for the coamings?
;-) Paul
Oh... I forgot this was a cat boat. They do often have high coamings like that. See the painting below, they still have to sit up on the side decks.
Coamings have not been trimmed as yet. Plan on doing that sometime over the next few days. They will be about 3" above the deck when they are cut...Rounded and smoothed. The original plan had coamings about 1" high. As I will be seated on the cabin flooring, I would like a nice peice of wood on my back.
They will conform to the sheer line until near the transom then I will drop it down about an inch, continue for about 4-6" then drop it again to the final height before ending at the transom. This is still under deliberation.
The forward coaming will conform to the rise of the foredeck and end flush with the side coamings where they meet.