Now it is time to start the work on the wooden structure, the skeleton for later attachments.
The inner house walls cannot be directly to the metal skin of the ship. Space need to be foreseen the isolation, pipes and techniques. Non-structural inner walls can placed anywhere like in a house.
Do not use a water-level instrument; measure and average instead. Ships change their position in the water depending on their load or how they are tight up.
For the ceiling structures,
M10 wire studs were welded on the bulkhead to carry the ceiling. Wooden beams are first screwed the longitudinal direction. Then a frame is made in transversal direction. This frame will carry the ventilation tubes on top and hold the ceilings below.
The front if the ship has a flat ceiling under the original deck plates:
The mid of hte ship has a flat ceiling under the new welded deck:
The rear of the ship follows the original shape of the deck plates. The rear areas have ^-ceilings that have a self-carrying structure and hold by welded studs at the side. Maximum use of the roof space causes the ventilation tubes to go aside.
Once you have ceiling structures, you can hang things like work lights and kids swings ;-).
For the wall structures,
above each rib, a bracket is welded on the bulkhead. Wooden boards are then attached parallel with the bulkhead and keeping the original banashape of the ship inside. Note that the vertical wall is 90° withe the floor; the vertical wall at the bulhead is inclining towards the inside. Feels a bit strange for who is used to conventional 90° structures.
In the picture below, the curves are not optical camera-effect, but actual the ships curves.
