Day 18 - Rails and Seat

On Sunday the weather was unusually warm for this time of winter. It was actually up in the 70's! ...so I decided to spend some time working on my boat.

It's hard to believe that it's already been nearly a month since I last tinkered on the boat. The holidays really threw a wrench in the work flow... but now things are slowing down once again and I am able to find some free time to "play".

So anyway, on Sunday I decided to cut out the middle seat and work on attaching a few more rub rails to the bottom and sides of the boat. After cutting out the seat I discovered that my measurements had been somewhat incorrect, so I had to make a couple more cuts. Luckily it was still usable so it wasn't a total failure. I glued and screwed some small one-by's to the underside of the seat to add a little strength and then fastened the seat to the boat.

Then I cut a couple pieces of molding and filed down the ends to smooth them off before gluing and screwing them to the bottom of the boat. These rails will not only add more rigidity to the bottom of the boat, but will also protect it against rocks or logs, etc... I also added some small rails along the side... more for looks than for anything else.

Yesterday I went out to take some photos of the boat (around 5:30pm) and the temperature inside my workshop was 35 degrees -- two days ago it was in the low to mid 70s.





~E