SCAMP 9/29

More photos of SCAMP under construction.

She looks almost ready to cruise…

Doubling the after edge of cabin roof. Note double access hatches. They will be typical watertight type eventually. That long cutout in the center will be an access door inside the mast box to get at the mast step. Hard to see, but there’s a small drain hole at the base of the bulkhead so that rain water and spray don’t collect but instead drain away into the cockpit.

View forward. Note almost finished coamings and beamy cockpit. Although the primary accommodations goal was a comfortable solo berth on the cockpit sole with upper body under the “veranda,”  with filler boards, SCAMP’s generous cockpit will accommodate two sleepers out in the cockpit entirely.

And finally, the answer to the burning question every hardship-loving,  minimalist small-boat cruiser has secretly wondered about with regard to SCAMP: Yes, a grown man can sit entirely out of the weather—even without the boom tent.