Fitting the engine bed (part 1) - SV Tapatya EP80

Building a cruising sailboat It's finally time to start fitting the engine in the boat, and the first job involved in this is to securely fit the engine bed. I'm going for a belt and braces and more braces approach to this, so first I make up a plug that will be fixed to the inside bottom of the boat, over which the engine bed will locate. The next step is the very scary task of cutting a hole in the correct location in the bottom of the boat. This is achieved with the use of a self-made template. And that is as far as we get in this video. Next week the engine bed fitting will continue. Stay tuned! The SV Tapatya challenge coin is available from; http://www.svseeker.com/wp/product/tapatya-coin/ All proceeds go to the SV Tapatya sail fund Music tracks "Sit and Wonder" and "The Great Divide" available on iTunes, Amazon etc. EP "Shake a Leg" and album "Out of the Moloch" All music from these videos is available from: https://ynotb.bandcamp.com/album/the-sv-tapatya-tracks If you like what you see, leave a tip in the Tips Jar; http://www.svtapatya.com/the-tips-jar.html Follow the build, along with the story of my first cruising adventure (The Miss Molly I Adventures) on my website; http://www.svtapatya.com Support the build, the vlog, the blog and the writing on; https://www.patreon.com/sv_tapatya Or follow me on Instagram for various shots of my boating life; https://www.instagram.com/sv.tapatya This is the story of my building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk-rigged, schooner dory. The boat utilises a hard-chined, plywood construction and this design of boat is a proven, capable, ocean-going vessel. Boat building with plywood is a relatively easy and cost-effective way to produce a strong, monocoque-style boat hull. These videos aim to show the way in which I go about it. Thank you! Tony