Your interior pics and ideas

[Pete7]

I would strongly recommend all seacocks to a common area 'manifold' if practicable,

Hmm, like the French RM yachts, nice clean light interiors too.

http://www.rm-yachts.com/contenu/,rm_880,41

 

[elton]

Question for Elton...

How do you get on with your carpet? Does it get wet and then stay damp at all? Does it slide around at all upwind? What about cooking spillages?

Reason I ask is the interior of my Sabre has lots of white GRP. It's fine on the vertical surfaces but the floor is now quite dirty with ingrained grime. I was thinking about carpet but I don't know how practical it is.

I just use discarded carpet remnants and replace it whenever necessary. It's so small, I've never had to buy any. I was thinking of using waterproof bathroom carpet tiles velcro'd to the saloon floor.

 

[Strathglass]

Very nice ! Do I take it you faced the door and saloon table in the same sapele that you had done the bulkheads in ? Was it a veneer or a thin ply ? That's a great looking job with the contrasting trim to the door surround.

The contrast between the wood and the white paint is very much to my taste - I've seen a few Carter 33's with the same type of setup and thought the same but your wood finish is much nicer.

Boo2

Yes I used the same ply wherever practical.
Generally 4mm sapele faced ply. On the galley and wherever there are doors the same sheet was used for the surface of the item and any drawer/locker fronts so that the grain matched.

The cross wood strips in the table and doors are ramin and all the other wood is iroko.

I made all the mouldings. The fiddles on the galley are 2" high and were hand dovetailed at the corners. Iriko is a very difficult wood to work with but very hard wearing.

The table folds to half it's size at sea and had a plainer sapele surface and decent 2" fiddles when folded down.

All of the internal woodwork has been epoxy coated before varnishing.

The door on the photo from the front hatch is a laminate of 4mm sapele, 8mm gaboon ply and the other face is white formica (it is in the heads/shower room). The door can swing through 180 degrees so that it can be set to three positions, Aft and open clipped to the mast, Closed in the middle as the photo or partially foreward where it clips to the front cabin door to give some privacy to someone having a shower.

The hull had bulkheads fitted when I bought it and the door cutout was half round at the top and bottom. It was also directly behind the keel stepped mast. I changed it's position and decided that half rounded mouldings would be too difficult to make accurately so opted for rectangular doors with cut off corners.

The whole internal layout is far removed from the original Contention 33 design but as I started from a decked hull with bulkheads fitted and nothing else I had a lot of scope to do whatever I wished.

It took me many many years