Underfloor heating!

I admit... I'd been putting off tackling the underfloor under the cabin floor. Why? Simply, because to do it, I would have to systematically move everything. And even then, as soon as the UFH panels were down, I would have to protect them from damage.

I finally bit the bullet and cleared the forward half of the cabin. Having located the cooker in its final position, it was a fairly easy matter to lay out the 12mm Celotex and then the UFH panels, to provide the 'pipe map' required.

Once the panels were down, it was a case of wrestling with 120 metres of plastic pipe, trying to persuade it to fit into the grooves!

Finally...!

I then had to cover the newly-laid UFH with every spare piece of plywood I could find, to stack all the materials, tools and other clobber, so I could do the other half of the cabin.

Here is the rear half of the cabin, with Celotex, panels and pipework laid. Note the walking boards.

The next job was to crack on with laying the engineered oak floor boards. This progressed quite smoothly, with all of the various heavy objects coming in handy to weight it down while the glue set.

With the stern half more or less finished, it was time to shift everything yet again!! If I had a pound for every time I've moved all this stuff...

With the floor finished, my next priority was to start putting the cooker back together. The hotplates had got very rusty, but a few minutes with the belt sander soon made a big improvement.

A quick trial assembly confirmed that the lids would stay open, without hitting the cabin side.

And finally... got the tiller drilled to take the pin and fitted the rather lovely hand-made handle.