Head – Skumpan

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The original wall vinyl had almost completely dropped from the upper side and was pretty disgusting. The heater was installed in the middle of the floor making the already small head even smaller. We decided to get rid of the vinyl and clean the wall and also try to move the heater to the cockpit area.

The glue was on there pretty good, heat gun and paint scraper helped to get rid of it

We also decided to remove the two thru-hulls since we only use a Porta Potti as the closest pumpout station from our home port is a few hours away. As the Porta Potti is square and pretty big, we also wanted to enlarge the floor space a bit by lifting it up. The space created under the new floor board can then be used as storage for e.g. the toilet chemicals, engine oils etc.

The old valves and thru-hulls were hard to remove and needed some violence in the form of metal saw and angle grinder

An angle grinder was used to cut the outer flange in to slices that could be chopped off

First layerof fiber glass on the outside

Here the epoxy is curing while being heated a bit with the lamp and the heatgun

After about 8 layers of fiber glass on both sides the surface was faired with micro ballons

Finally a coat of clean epoxy and then bottom paint

Thru-hulls removed, wall and floor painted, support for the new floor built and a piece of plywood put on the aft wall to cover all the big holes

New floor varnished and ready. The fingerhole allows for lifting the whole floor to get access under the floor

Still needs a shelf or something and then it’s done!