Dry Fitting the Seats

I've been spending most of my boat time cutting the seat sides and tops to shape. It's a fun process but it involves a bunch of climbing in and out with a thick pencil for scribing the hull shape to the roughly shapes seat panels. Then lots of time with the power plane and low angle planes fine tuning the curves to make for a snug fit. Now that all these panels are shaped I can dry fit everything in place. It's cool to see the interior goes from a raw hull to the general finished layout of the cockpit so quickly. Here's a quick slide show to show the transformation. Of course everything is just clamped or taped in place for the moment and will all come back out so I can epoxy coat the seat tanks. Then I'll begin installing everything.

The centerboard trunk is supported at the aft end by a temporary thwart just to hold it in the correct position. The actual thwart will cover the back foot or so of the centerboard trunk.