Little Squirt Too Odds and Ends
08-May-04 I'm still trying to set up some way to cook food while on the water. My latest scheme is too install a box on my Pocket Cruiser simular to the box on the Weekender that is located against the cabin bulkhead. I don't like empty spaces so first I cut out a board to fill the empty space against the bulkhead. The box will be 16 ½ inches wide.
First the Board.
Next I cut a second board the same length as the first board but it has too be as wide enough to go from the deck to the opening for the cabin hatch. It needs to be the same angle as the cabin bulkhead so it rests against the bottum of the boat and is level at the top of the box cover. I measured it with the sliding T-Bevel and cut it too size. For me it was 23 deg.
19-May-04 I wanted to mount two deep cycle batteries in Little Squirt Too and I decided to mount them in the bow behind the forward bulkhead. It would have a front panel which would be pulled out to put the batteries in. I left a slot in the middle for the wiring to go up to a section between the doors in the bulkhead where the swith panel would go.
20-May-04
Finished the shell of the battery box. Still have to install the 2*4s
that the eysbolts will go through then it will be done.
21-May-04
Finished the battery box. I couldn't afford two batteries so I made
the compartment slightly larger then necessary. That way when I do
get the new battery I know it will fit. They don't sell the model
battery I had in little squirt any more. I mounted two pieces of 2*4
on each side of the box and sunk two 3 inch eyebolts into them. I
also sunk two 3 inch eyebolts into the keel. I rubbed the threads of
all of them in epoxy glue. I hope it will harden the wood around the
threads and make them stronger.
04-Aug-04 I've cut the hole for the windows to be installed. Because of the shape of the hull it turned out to be more complicated then I expected. I drew a circle on the outside of the cabin wall by tracing the ring on my purchased window but could only cut the top part of the circle. The deck got in the way at the bottum of the circle. I had to go inside the cabin with the window and redraw the circle inside and finish cutting it there. This seems to be the only way to do the job as the roof of the cabin get in the way if you try to cut the top half of the circle on the inside. Because of paramoia on my part I deliberately cut the hole too small and slowly expanded them till the windows fit. The thought of screwing up here at this stage of construction really scared me. My wife suggested that if I had messed up the hull this late in construction there would probably be a nice bonfire in our back yard. Probably not, but there would have been a lot of screaming.
