My headlining with a little help from PBO

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Practical Boat Owners article couldn't have been better timed for us as we were just starting our headlining project, working only at weekends and with other work on the go it has taken about a month and a half.

We had been taking tamplates with brown paper and transferring them at home to make panels during the week to take and fit at the weekend. We have not used foam backed as the panels were new and flat, this has mad the job much simpler and cheaper, the vinyl was £6.00 per metre on a 2 metre roll from a remenant shop.

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The photo is linked to my website have a nosey at the other headlining images. Also note our new curtains, I bought some ink jet transfer papers from PC World and transferred to plain material Top Cat's logo to personalise the curtains, also intend to make a table cloth and even cushion covers in the future, I am really pleased with the effect.

So thank you PBO, your advice on cutting for corners was brilliant, had a few headaches with internal corners, but it is all fun init!

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Pretty good Jools. Just about to do a similar job to Snowgoose but have to do the sides of the hull in forward cabin too. Brilliant website. Almost felt as though I had been there myself. Were the pictures taken with a digital or SLR camera and then scanned?
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Nice one. I wish that I had had the space to use panels, but headroom was at a premium in the saloon, so ended up using felt backed carpet instead. Looks great, but the big drawback is if I need to get underneath the carpet.
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I use digital, have an Olympus 5050z brilliant camera, have add on lenses upto 1000mm nearly, though not so great on a pitching deck lol.

Thank you for the compliment.

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I did think about that but decided to go ahead anyway. The tri-colour is my secondary nav-light system, I prefer to use my deck levels when coastal anyhow.

The navtex aerial will obscure partially the anchor light, and the centre of the tricolour, I usually use low level lighting on anchor, this year I have been donated a hurricane lamp so will probably not use the anchor light so much. I think at distance it will not be a great deal, the light is wider than the aerial.

The active aerial, yes this could be a problem from some angles I agree, it is on about 120° where the port and aft white portions are, again from a distance I am hoping this will not create confusion, I am more worried about reflected green in the red sector than being obscured.

I did nip out in my dinghy off the mooring at night and I could not tell the aerials were there, so hopefully it is going to be without a problem. If anyone ever complains after seeing me, I will have to re-assess my mounting and move them.

So far, my aerial locations have made vast differences to receiption, so I really hope they can stay put.

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I'm thinking of doing similar now. A couple years ago re-fixed all the old fabric having stripped the disintegrating foam off the back. Looked fine - but now I can't stop the mildew. What a waste of time!
Anyway, did you find a reasonable source of suitable carpet? Did you bother with automotive carpet or something like that?

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