Interior refit Targa 28/29

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After much advice from the forum, late last year we purchased an ageing Targa 28 with new engines & drives.

Shortly after purchase it went into hibernation for winter & we started the process of giving her a much needed makeover.
After the recent posts on successfull interior reworking I thought I would share the experience through photo's of our interior refit.

The original interior can be described as a colourfull combination! Jade & wine red !!, hats of to fairline though the materials were all in A1 condition, just the colours made it a bit dated.

So to start here are the original interior photo's-

Cabin seating / forward berth


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Galley -

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Aft berth -

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Cabin access-

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As you can see, in pretty good condition but not pretty by todays standards.
Next it all got riped out, carpets upholstery & all soft furnishings, curtains etc.


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Now to the best bit, this is how she looks today, new upholstery, carpets, curtains & work surfaces.

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I was well pleased to see the result, if anyone needs an excellent upholsterer then I will pass on his details, as you can see the workmanship is second to none.

Thats the cabin, galley & aft berth done, just the heads, cockpit & canopy to go, will post again when completed.
 
Worktop looks fab, and it looks like a very professional job.
I rather like the original fabric colour scheme, though /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Very nice job, it looks loads better. You are a detial guy - did you do the dorr handles and stuff too?

What was the deal with kitchen worktops? Was the old stuff a thin skin that peeled off, or was it a lump of Avonite that had to be prised out? And what is the new stuff? I ask becuase might do same to my flybridge

I am just finishing a full internal refit too (carpets, curtians, bedlinens, alcantara cabin linings, flybridge in sunbrella, etc) so can sympathise. It's quite a lot of work!
 
Cheers Paul, the worktop is my handywork, patterned using linning paper & masking tape before transfering to a piece of black granite formica.
The result, absolutely brilliant!!

Engel fridge door taken to pieces, original metal front plate removed, new brushed aluminium plate inserted, cheap changes but what a difference.

Even the door handles, light fittings, locks, hinges etc all hard chromed, saved a fortune on replacement.

Realy enjoyed the process, cant wait to get some use, roll on the summer. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Great post. I would like to do an interior re-furb having done the engines during the winter. Trouble is where do you stop.....
 
Wow, good on yer going to the trouble of chroming all the brass parts. Nice to see a job done to perfectionist stnadards not bodged. Great stuff.

I notice you even changed the 13A sockets. By the way, while you're in perfectionist mode, your glomex amplifier is the version that fits in a Gewiss frame so if you want to put a chrome frame around it instead of the black you can buy a gewiss Playbus series mount from poster nicks on here or hedley and ellis peterboro (they deal over the phone). Google the gewiss catalog to choose the exact part. In fact I see you have the older style fairline lightswitches so why not change em all to Gewiss Playbus with the chrome trims and blue LEDs? They're pretty cheap. More info in this recent thread http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php?C...1&fpart=all
 
Thanks all for the very kind replies, I think I should answer some of the questions,

Without doub't the biggest thank you has to be to our upholsterer, Brian Swann of Swann Upholstery.

The whole process of choosing the furnishings, quote & timescale was faultless, he kept every apointment, made many phone calls & arrived when he said he would & completed on time, not many could match the professional advice & service so once again thanks Brian.

The seat covering is faux suede, picked from the sample book that Brian brought to the boat, as was the carpets.

We picked a matching material from Fabric warehouse for the curtains & used the old one's as paterns, we were lucky to have on of my wife's customers volunteer to make these & she did a first class proffesional job.

The chiped bits as shown in picture 5 are where a dab of sikaflex is used on the seat backs in the original build, to remove the backs the vinyl had to be cut away, as this is now behind the new upholstery there is no harm done.

The fridge door is an easy change, there are two screws on the bottom moulding, remove these, if the moulding does'nt part from the door remove the door seal & you should find a few more screws holding the inner door skin to the door & additional screws for the mouldings.
The front decorative plate should slide out after removing the moulding.
On ours the hidden side was a wood grain finish but we only needed the sheet for a patern so discarded it after the brushed stainless one was made.
Refitting was reverse of dissasemble, easy.

The door handles, locks, slam plates & hinges were all hard chrome plated, looked in the yellow pages for a local chrome plating company, had to wait for a larger batch to be done & they added my bits to that, only a few days, the results were stunning.

I did have the good fortune to find three gewiss playbus switches & boxes with the chrome surround at the Malvern Boat Jumble, I know they can't be seen in the photo's but they are there, thanks for the tip on the Glomex amp having a gewiss surround available, will keep my eyes peeled for one.

Will post a few more pictures when i get the chance to upload them.

Cheers /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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