Sailing Hatseflats
A 15ft Pram for Dinghy Cruising
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Hatseflats Design

Hatseflats Hull Build

Fitting Out Hatseflats

Building TooPhat

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20200719

Finishing the box consisted of: cutting the lid to size and giving all surfaces three coats of epoxy. Painting the box in Hatseflats colours would have to wait until after our summer holiday.

The first job was to remove the wrapping and cardboard layers and verify that the lid fitted the box correctly.

I used the router to cut the lid into shape and round the corners.

With the lid ready I coated the insides of the box and the lid. I took care not to coat the alloy rails and heat shields. During the final coating I gave all inside seams some extra attention to ensure waterproofness from the inside.

After I had coated the outside as well, the box was finally ready. It had taken about 40 hours to build the box. More than half that were spent to sand the box. Sanding the box to perfection would have taken twice as much time.

We took the galley box on our camping trip. The box worked quite well for us and earned many positive comments from passers-by.