Hello.
I just finished assembling the plywood cockpit recess for the micro-Bootlegger Sport and the overall length of the assembly is about 1.25" longer than the deck cutout as defined by the cut-out template.
I made the recess with the plans glued to the plywood and cutout on the lines.
I attached some photos .
Please let me know your suggestions.
Thank you
Chris
hi chris,
the microbootlegger sport cockpit is one of the trickier cockpits to build and install. i am builing one presently that i modified (see ‘new project’ in the current forum) …but i have built a lot of Nick Schade designs …as well as modified them…
if you scribed the parts vs getting them from a kit, my first guess is you may have variation in terms of the angle between the sill (the inner piece) and the inset ring (the outer ring). this can quickly have an impact on the length of the overall piece. eyeballing it, your coaming looks a bit flat which would make the whole assembly longer than expected. if you look at your first picture which shows a length of ~ 39 inches, note the height of your ruler above the inner ring…and then look at the plans carefully. there should be over 1 inch of height (double check to get the exact amount)…but your picture seems to show substantially less.
the second thing to pay attention to is the cutout pattern itself and is it sitting properly on the hull and check its alignment with bulkhead and the deck part line…a little variation on how the pattern sits on the hull…can elongate or shorten the cockpit hole you would cut into the hull.
a careful check of all measurements may help you isolate the issue.
regardless, i have never had these things fit per plans (becuase no boat is built perfectly per plans) and some careful carving is always needed on the hull to set the cockpit in it correctly. the pattern, from a certains perspective, just gets you into the zone…where more careful carving is finally required to get it finished.
i hope these comments help.
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Okay, thank you, I appreciate your reply.
