Join us this week as we tackle a big project on our custom 435 catamaran sv basik...a 100% refit of the master head. Come back next week where we complete th...

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okay so the next big project on SP basic

is redoing the master head I mean when

we bought the boat remember the master

head yeah

master head was really disgusting it was

unfinished we purchased it and it just

it didn't work there was a hat that was

right in the middle of the roof the

floor was an evil always fun to use

because there was no door long ahead we

never used it I know

and then yeah you had the shower

standing there so the floors are uneven

to accommodate the water down to the

sump system then there was a sink that

was bolted to the wall with a small

countertop you can see all the underside

of the sink the plumbing and no story

right yeah so we needed to just update

that and make it what we want so rather

than try to modify an existing head we

opted to just gut it down strip

everything out let me design it redesign

and to start fresh so stay tuned and

you'll see how that whole project turned

out should be fine

oh it was fun so we stripped the roof

down to nothing I had to get everything

out of there we get all the weight out

of there and just start over

and then we proceeded to insulate the

room it's great because we didn't want

it to be hollow sounding great

insulation for heat for a cool sound you

know and it just makes the room feel

better

always insulate anywhere you can after

we insulated I had to skin over the

insulation and all any other voids in

the in the room with an ultralight

marine grade poplar plywood I used a

polyurethane adhesive to adhere to the

wall and not too worried about it

because I'm gonna be glassing over all

the surfaces with wet system epoxy and

glass cloth and you'll see that coming

up

okay so the next step in this project

was to work on the storage lockers I

ended up subdividing that wall space

into three separate spaces and each of

those would have multiple shelves on it

so to get the shelves on without any

fasteners I had to put little stilts up

set the shelf in place and epoxy it in

place it worked out pretty pretty good

once the first shelves fired off I was

able to move the stilts on top of that

shelf to get the second shelf in and

just work my way through the room that

way okay the next step is to take just

poplar panels and I want to sweep a

radius into the edges here so that when

I put the glass block down and it looks

seamless I'm gonna take west system

epoxy

I'm gonna use a 2:05 partner

with the 406 silica it's a colloidal

filler we use for a varying compound

okay so I need some epoxy

is that Emma mixed up some epoxy for me

got it

a consistency of a big peanut butter

he's a one-inch craft it is a one inch

radius and you take your used gift cards

and after the Schultz were all in I had

to put self-etch on and the self edge

was for two reasons

it actually stiffens the front edge of

the shelf and I have a little stainless

detail that goes on the front of each

shelf gives me something to attach it to

I built the face frame outside of the

room and shaped it and just attached it

all as one unit and it worked out pretty

pretty slick that way

tell me how what do you think we should

do in the master head here how should we

design

we'll be storage lockers

yes ed what do you fall back yeah

make sure

the upper cabinetry is roughed in and

now it's time for the removal of the

subfloor which still needs to grind down

to the bare hole so then we can go ahead

and install the new freshwater tank that

is a very messy job and I am just so

happy that we only have one piece mask

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so after the tank was secured we shaped

in a 3/4 sheet of honeycomb composite to

fit the floor

it was epoxy to the hull and glass cloth

was layered for strength the hardest

part about this whole project was making

sure that when I laid the floor down

that it planed out with the floor on

either side but everything went as

planned and happy with the outcome now

that the floor is nice and flat it gives

us a good work surface so we could start

laying glass cloth and epoxy the rest of

the room

I did not realize how difficult it would

be to glass overhead sure it sounds

simple enough but when you're holding

the cloth and trying to roll epoxy onto

it without dripping on to your hair and

clothes let's just say gravity was not

our friend

we used a continuous six ounce

fiberglass cloth that was 40 inches wide

and 60 inches in length we love using

this particular ounce because it wraps

and conforms very easily to the

irregular shapes and angles of SV basic

if we needed more strength we would just

add more layers we came up with a plan

to use supports to help hold up the

cloth in place while we applied the

resin lucky thing because I could barely

touch the ceiling

overall it turned out great and I only

had to cut out a few chunks of my hair

to get the epoxy out now that the

ceiling was done teal was able to finish

the rest of the glass worth by himself

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so while the epoxy was curing over the

past few days I've been roughing in the

cabinetry in the boat workshop I test

fit them scribed them to the walls make

sure they fit perfect before applying

the final skins

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master hat see you then