Turning the ugliest boat in Costa Rica into a respectable 28' Center Console Diesel

[GringoJohn]

Here's some pictures I shot yesterday. It's center console time! Building the console has got to be the most fun part of building a center console boat, it's such an important part it's even the boat's first name Before I post the pictures, i have to make a disclaimer. We are grinding glass alot, and instead of throwing our clothes in the washing machine every day and getting glass on the rest of our clothes, we go to this used clothing store, and gets big sacks of clothes for a couple of bucks and then throw them away. The bag is getting empty, and today Harol got stuck with a women's shirt so that is why he's dressed like that! I had on a terrible shirt as well, but I edited myself out of the pictures!!!

Ok on to business! Here is the first drawing of the console.



I copied this off of my other 28 foot boat. We cut it out and mounted it in the boat, but I thought is was a little too tall.



So we took off 4 inches and then we decided to put a small step on the motor side so the captain can sit on the motor box and have somewhere to prop us his feet. We came up with this:



Satisfied with the design, we made a copy of it and then figured out how wide the motor box was going to be. We then cut out a ton of panels at the width of the console, one for every different face, and labeled them, for example here is number 5:



Then we made two more tables to glass on, because its a lot of pieces and glassed both sides with one layer of 1708 and they are drying right now. With the console moving forward, we went ahead and installed more of the back floor, we had already glassed the underside of this part, and since there is a little crown, we have to glass the top side in place. Here the newest section of floor: