This is how we decided to build the front cap. I was going to do the frame think like the rest of the boat, but i don’t know how to calculate out all the lengths with a section that is curved (I guess I could figure it out with google and math, but that wouldn’t have been much fun). And this way we have an anchor locker up front, and a nice solid back to the front bench, and it makes it a little stronger because up front we are going to put the tie offs for the mooring that the boat is going to sit on. Here’s the progression:
We started with just a cap that we made from tracing the outside of the boat, and then tracing our widths from the outside in, and then making the door jamb for the anchor locker. We glass this side (the bottom) and will leave the other side bare so the foam stays flexible until we put it in place.
Then in the morning we were trying to line up another piece and Harol commented that he wished we had 10 squares. So i got a piece of plywood and we traced the square and cut out some more.
Then with those in place, we wrapped a piece of foam around the inside of the wooden squares. we measured the highest part and made all the foam the height of the highest part, we’ll put it in the boat and then trim it down little by little until we get it to fit
And then we glassed the bottom part of the foam to the cap
Tomorrow we’ll have that in the boat probably early. While the top was drying, we went ahead and stuck down a couple of the back caps:
