[Rhodes22-list] Re design of Rhodes Interior and elimination of compression post.

[Lou Rosenberg]

John

This looks like an entirely different boat inside!   I like what you  
did!
But if you are spending all that time in it, what do you do for the  
head?

My wife demanded the boat have at least a porta potti

I just use the V berth for storage on Miracles

Lou


On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:41 PM, John Shulick wrote:

>
> Hi everybody,
>
>  Over the last season I decided to change the interior of my 71  
> rhodes to
> reflect the way my wife and I use the boat. We are not small people  
> and
> found the original Layout to be hard to move around in when cabin  
> bound by
> weather. As we get on the boat friday nights and don't return to  
> the dock
> until sunday afternoons we found the six foot nose birth a bit  
> cramped. Also
> as the early rhodes did not have a fixed head we had a hallway with  
> little
> purpose and a wall extending halfway across the the boat to little  
> purpose
> except to act as a compression post for the mast. During the past few
> weekends I added a 2 ft. extension to the bow bed replaced the  
> cabin floor,
> installed new carpeting and removed the original wall replacing it  
> with 2
> half walls and a compression arch over the cabin ceiling to accept  
> the mast
> load. The arch you see in the following pictures is 1/2 in spring  
> steel
> custom bent in a 100 ton press (I do live in Pgh. after all) I  
> stood on the
> arch before I installed it and my 280 lbs. did not even make it  
> flex. I feel
> pretty confidant it will work but will keep all informed in the  
> event of
> failure. Enclosed are before and after shots.
>
> John Shulick
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p23012525/johns%2B2007%2Bhome% 
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