I believe all this will be class legal. After all it is just a copy of an existing class legal boat. If you have any ideas or thoughts, let me know, I'm new at this. The goal is to make a national's level racing boat that will also be good for open water daysailing.
Here we go, first trailer work, bearings are really crunchy and there is a lot of rust here.
This is what I want to replicate - the interior of a SLI Daysailer similar to the new DS1's
Newer DS1's have a lot of flotation, if you flip the boat, they don't really swamp, you only get a couple inches of water inside. The self bailer takes care of that quickly.
First task, create a bulkhead so water can't get in the cuddy. Layout work - I've already stripped, cleaned, sanded and painted the inside, it was painted black. The interior of an old DS1 just fills up with water so even if you can right the boat, there is no way you can bail it all out. The water just flows back in over the topsides. This is probably why the early DS1's had a really tall combing around the cockpit.
Testing a laminated stringer to use as a cleat for the bulkhead's foundation. My thought is to strip plank the bulkhead using a method similar to how a wood canoe is made. This fits the hull, now I need to cut a rabbit so I can let in the planks but this will have to wait for the weather to warm. It needs to be tabbed to the hull with epoxy. This should stiffen the hull a bit. I've seen some racing boats with a lot of cross bracing here.