The weather has been rainy, so it's been slow moving but I am making some progress.
I decided that I am going to copy what I did with my Holiday for floatation. First, I span the ribs with corrugated polypropylene sheets. This creates a void for water to move freely, under the sheeting and what will be my foam. The flow allows for easy drainage and hopefully a dryer bilge. It also prevents my floatation foam from being constantly submerged and becoming rotted and waterlogged. After the corrugated sheeting is in, my next step is aluminum floor support framing.
The aluminum floor framing will serve two purposes. One, provide ample support for my coosa decking (coosa is tough but flimsy) and two it will raise my floor 2". The framing I'm using is 2X3. I've been talking to a fabricator and raising the deck 2" is going to give me room for about a 40-gallon belly tank. Once the tank is installed, I can cut my coosa decking. I'm just going to dry fit everything for now. I'm going to have to wait until next Spring or Summer when the weather is right to install my pour-in floatation foam.
other than that I reinstalled my cabin bench framing. I added coosa panels to the bench supports. The coosa panels are what will be the bottom of the new bulkhead. I figure the by adding the coosa now it'll make building and installing the bulkhead easier later, plus that part of the bulkhead extends down into the bilge and having that part be coosa means it will not rot.
Check out the commercial drain grate I picked up. I plan on installing a washdown system and I want the boat to have some pretty serious drainage to handle hosing down the deck should we hook a bleeder.
