The Fiddlehead<\/a>, another decked canoe, taught me that painting the cockpit after<\/strong> the deck is installed requires numerous\u00a0maneuvers\u00a0easily handled by someone with triple elbow and wrist joints. I don’t need to learn that lesson twice. \u00a0As I started to install the carlins, I thought, “Whoa. Hold on. Fit out the rest of the interior stuff and paint it before letting the carlins and deck get in the way.”<\/p>\n With few obstructions, the painting was quick. I’ve found the little 4 inch foam rollers to be very convenient for this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (1st of 3 postings today) Do you follow directions step by step, exactly as written, no deviations? No, I didn’t think so. Does anyone? Sometimes it works out easier to break stride and do work a different way. This is one of those cases. Progress on the boat slowed as I did another project (to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boatbuilding","7":"category-eva-too","8":"category-mill-creek-13","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8197,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/8197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"photo](\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mc13_foot_braces_fitted-300x118.jpg\" "\\"foot")
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<\/a>other interior fittings were footrests and the deckplates that comprise the hatches into the watertight \/ flotation \/ storage \u00a0compartments. The only element requiring any real work was the footrests. As shipped, they are designed to be screwed in place with big ugly screws that pass through the hull. I’ve always shunned having any more holes than absolutely necessary in a boat’s hull. So, I made some mounting pads that glue to the inside of the hull, to which the footrests can then be fastened with screws.<\/p>\n