Organized disaster

As you can see in the picture below, we had to cut the floor out in the salon and remove the old aluminum water tanks to get at the keel bolts and remove the old mast step. The problem we now face is the old tanks were supporting the floor, so we are in the process of building a support structure that allows as much access to the bilge as possible.

We are trying to keep it as simple as possible without compromising strength. The solution we have arrived at is three verticle plywood supports running fore and aft with three hatches to access the bilge. The following is Michelle hard at work.