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Post by munkey on Dec 4, 2010 16:07:14 GMT
I'm finally getting round to sorting out my tired old SK700. Does anybody have any pics of the inside of a tidy SK as my has been destroyed over the years and I would love to know how the inside should look.
Any pics of a SK would be greatly recieved as the only one I can find are in a similar state to mine.
Mark
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Post by hittboy on Dec 5, 2010 23:51:17 GMT
The only SK I've raced on had no interior at all. Not even any bulk heads! Just a compression post under the mast and some rigging wire from under the chain plates down to a keel bolt! Can't have weighed very much like that, and it was a bit wobbly! Sorry I can't help you with a tidy one. I suspect there may be no such thing!
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Post by martin on Dec 6, 2010 20:03:49 GMT
Unless someone has carefully sanded down and repainted the interior, thre should be witness marks where any interior parts atatched to the hull or coachroof. That will give some clues as to what was once there.
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Post by munkey on Dec 7, 2010 17:29:59 GMT
Ah it would appear all SK's are stripped for racing as mine is exactly the same nothing at all below. The wife wants that changed so we can use it as a weekend sailor. Looks like some imaginative design work may be required.
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Post by martin on Dec 8, 2010 19:10:33 GMT
What you need are some large sheets of cardboard. These are easy to trim, hack around and stick together with tape. This way you make a mock up of your interior of your boat, actually in the interior of your boat, and keep playing with it till you are happy. The cardboard then becomes the templates to cut pieces of ply or trb to.
The Charisma comes with a full de-lux interior, ie a bunk on each side, which carry on beneath the cockpit so could sleep up to four if there wasn't a load of sails and rope, and a shelf.
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PaulD
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Post by PaulD on Dec 8, 2010 20:12:04 GMT
Guys, there will be interiors / bulkheads in these boats otherwise you will find some weaknesses in them. If you just have a compression post under the mast and some rigging wire from under the chain plates down to a keel bolt what is stopping the deck folding or even giving the hull any strength?
I would do some reasearch on who designed the SK700 and try and get hold of some plans at least before doing anything.
Worth checking the ISAF and IRC regs aswell!!!
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Post by martin on Dec 9, 2010 18:07:46 GMT
Erm ok I've got ringframes that bond into the hull and deck, and a prtial bulkhead where the mast is
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Post by greybeard on Dec 9, 2010 18:35:32 GMT
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mikec
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Post by mikec on Dec 23, 2010 19:52:01 GMT
Hi, I very strongly second the comment about using large sheets of cardboard to make a mockup of various ideas. I did exactly that on Mescalito. The interior had been stripped completely for the conversion work and it had been rubbish anyway, no loss ... but I did reuse the bunk fronts and tops. It was really useful to see a full size model of things and make sure I was happy with it.
I suggest using thin plywood, say 4mm, with a veneer finish; teak is nice. Use thin section softwood framing to save weight, really flimsy stuff; once it is all glued and pinned together, the structure will be quite rigid. Silvermans is a good supplier of suitable plywood. Funny story here; delivery by them would have been costly, so I took some cardboard patterns to the yard to cut the sheets up so they would go in the car; it worked well but for Elf and Safety they insisted I took the sheets off their premises! So there I was, on the outskirts of Basildon, out on the grass verge sawing up sheets of plywood ... :-)
I find a drawer unit to be really useful, so I have a 4 drawer unit on one side aft of the main bulkhead, fabulous to give easy access to clothes and other stuff. OK, it's a bit more weight (but built ultra light), but to me well worth it for a cruiser/club racer.
A full height bulkhead at the mast, in teak, with clock and barometer on one side, a small oil lamp on the other side, does look so attractive!
Good luck.
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