John, In your pictures the green glob is certainly visible. If you now take the outboard border of the glob and then look to the right of it about an inch you will see the inside of one of the hull "planks." I ran a straight edge from the top of that plank edge across the v-berth area to the matching plank top edge on the port side. At that point one can measure to the top of the keel of the boat and arrive at a vertical dimension for a block of wood to be placed there. I also drew a pencil line on the inside of the bulkhead along the bottom of my straight edge from side to side. With those two dimensions it is easy to fashion a piece of 3/8 plywood so as to land it on the top plank edge port and starboard as well as a block of wood to support the centerline of your new floor. You will have to saw your new floor piece along the fore/aft centerline to get it beneath the v-berth and in place. Once done, you will have a handy floor on which to set your porta potti. I also used the port side to place my battery which puts the weight of it inboard and right near the base of the mast. I went ahead and fashioned a piece of wood to fill the space created beneath the new floor and the keel at the front edge of the flooring board. Caulked securely in place it relieves the chance of water collecting and "living" under the floor. On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:52 PM John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
I didn't see any pic of your boat Mike, must have gone to Dave only, not the list?
Anyhow, there's no liner under the v-berth in my #38 from '74, and no support or other customizations for holding a portapotty. Just the inside of the hull. Some pics attached.
Looks like at some point something with a round-ish base was epoxied in there...you can see areas with translucent greenish epoxy. I'm guessing it was added by some prior owner and then removed...I doubt that sloppy greenish epoxy is OEM. Nothing like it anywhere else in the boat.
cheers, John
On 5/24/19 9:45 AM, Dave Scobie wrote:> Mike.
I don't have any pics. It just provided places to attach things. Good
in it
reduced likelihood.of drilling a hole through hull when installing a mounting bracket. Bad in it limited customization.
Maybe someone can photo under their M17 vberth? (Needs to be a Jerry built boat as the mold was destroyed by Jerry about '94/95.)
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