Inner beauty

INNER BEAUTY
 
   All boats have inner beauty. A sound hull, working bilge pump, reliable engine, seacocks  that open and close. It's the stuff we don't see at first; it's the stuff that we don't think about til it doesn't work. That's the beauty that makes  a boat safe.
   I looked at all of SAGA's inner beauty and made some improvements. Most of these tasks were done by the boat yard. Batteries, engine hoses, seacocks and shrouds were replaced as needed in the first year. She's a simple boat, not a lot of systems like refrigeration or running water to be concerned about. For the first year or 2 she was sailed safely with all of her inner beauty. ..but i wanted more.
I wanted the boat to have beauty that please the eye, beyond the inner beauty of safety.
I really wanted to recreate, in this fiberglass boat, the cozy warm traditional beauty that i had come to love in wooden boats i had sailed over the years. The bright soft simplicity of white, wooden bulkheads, the curve of teak trim, the placement of brass lighting, the white v matched overhead. The sunlight  dancing in the cabin through potholes and hatches.

   Fortunately SAGA has a teak interior without any visible fiberglass in the cabin. But her interior was was all too dark and the teak had begun to show some wear and tear over her 33 years of  life. She has 5 feet of headroom in the main cabin so she would benefit from anything that may give at least the  illusion of additional height down below.
So my work begins...
Next I will discuss work done in the cabin.