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.