Motor Well Completed

 View aft, sorry for the mess, these two show the completed deck, a mix of old and new with a hatch to allow access to the steering. The original decking is spruce that is full of knots so filling in the missing planks was easy, simply dug through my scraps of 2 bys and ripped and planed as needed. Reminder, if you click on these pics, they enlarge.

 This, on, below, is of the completed motor well consisting of a short length of 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe, two threaded adapters, two thought hulls, and a pair of shims cut from PVC trim.

 The through hulls threaded nicely into the PVC adapters ( a piece of luck) and the bottom one is set in 3M 5200, between  all of the layers inside and out. I am wondering if I should have added grease fittings at top and bottom, but don't think I will need them.

 The upper part of the well is held in place by a 2 by 3 block that has a half round cutout to receive the PVC and held there by a clamp that I found in a box of misc. hardware in the dump.  The bolts are 1/4 inch stainless salvaged from my old sailboat.  All bedded in thickened epoxy. Did I need the uprights? I don't know but somehow they tied the whole thing together and I had just enough epoxy left so I did it.

 Here is a view of the back deck showing the hatch Should give good access and maybe allow for a bit of storage as long as I am careful not to overdo it.

 I really like the look of that deck, it just makes the lines of the boat more apparent as opposed to the gapping hole I began with.

A Little Progress

Missing pieces of rear deck milled out and installed (temporarily) with drywall screws while waiting for the bronze order to come in.  Hatch for access to steering has been cut into deck.  Need to decide on hardware for that.

 Ebay comes through with a $25 steering arm that fits nicely on the motor shaft.  Probably should have cleaned out all of the mess before taking pics, sorry.

 Rear deck assembled.  Since it is all spruce decking and since the original is full of knots, milling out the new decking was simple.  Scrap 2 bys ripped and planed supplied the material.

 Middle thwart.  The components are all salvage from other boats.  The seat top was originally the front seat back from an old  Penn Yan, The other components from misc. boats that had turned to mulch but still had some salvage value.

 Have had thees oarlocks hanging around and they might work for my 8 foot aux. power source.

 Rear hatch open, need to decide on hardware, also needing a flag holder for the flag pole and all around light. Hoping I will be able to steam the coaming to fit these tight curves.  Have installed blocking under the decking to provide a fastening surface for the coaming.