1981 CC - transom, decks, dog house.

[KenB]

From this very website, 10 or so years ago, I bought the top half of a console and a console roof from CMP. The roof was very heavy. I think what happened is that they laid up the original roof, but it was too floppy so they added many layers of glass and poly, but it got too heavy, and they sold it to a doofus like me. I cut out all the extra glass (which I used into various spots, such as filling the topcap lip at the transom, etc) and made some plywood supports that I epoxied into place. I like doghouses that lean back a little, so I added that to the 1/2 ply sides, but then had to recut the windows. Made some window frames from mahogany leftover from a whaler interior I made last year.

I had an engine cover from a 1964 seacraft 20 I/O that I converted to a full transom (I sold the unfinished hull last year), which I wanted to make into a seat. In the end the cover was too big, so I cut it up to match a seacraft cushion I bought. Then I figured out I had the cushion backwards, and was also not too thrilled about putting holes in to the doghouse for the cushion buttons, so no cushion on the seat.

In the end, I don't really like the shape of the dog house. Because the sides do not taper in, and the roof does not have enough crown, the whole thing looks too boxy to me. Im not going to fix it though. Anyway.