The New Interior

We knew from the beginning, as we looked at 40' plus boats, that most of them had the galley down and forward. The only boat we had seen with the galley up was a Roughwater 42. There were two for sale, one in SanDiago and the other in Seattle and the cost to get them to the SE coast was prohibative. We felt that we could modify the interior of a Hatteras 43 Double Cabin and move the galley up. The plan was to move the galley up to the starboard aft corner of the salon, convert the front half of the old galley to a laundry, and to expand the salon forward into the aft half of the old galley and add a nav station desk. A little layout work confirmed this would all work.

So we hired Randall Peters, a cabinet maker who had built a custom mahogany office for our house, to work with Chuck full time on this interior modification. Randall moved into our guest house and set his shop up in our garage.



Looking forward in the galley before we started, the large cabinet is actually the enclosure around the old, original refrigerator, yes the original 35 year old Fridgidare was still working, just barely. It had been put in the boat before the deck/cabin was placed on the hull. There was no opening large enough to get it out, so we dissasembled it into 6 pieces to remove it. The two grills to the right of the cabinet are the air conditioning ducts, keep them in mind for reference.


In the old galley we have installed a washer/dryer where the old sink was and an additional hanging closet where the stove top and oven used to be.

This picture shows the new nav station desk enclosure, where the refrigerator cabinet once was. Note the air conditioner duct just visible over the top of the new counter top.

The new Washer/Dryer is installed in the front half of the old galley, just to the front of the new desk back.

The galley has now moved up to the aft starboard corner of the salon. These two pictures are before and after the galley is just about finished with the new corian counter top, refrigerator, GE Advantiam oven, sink, cook top, and cabinet doors installed.

Here Chuck starts to lay Sound Down, a sound deadening foam, on the salon floor over the top of the propulsion engines and generator before the teak and holley is laid.

Back in the new galley, the center island has been removed, per design, and the starboard engine hatches are removed so Sound Down and flooring can be installed.

Now the tong and grooved teak, 2 1/2" wide, and the tong and grooved holly, 1/2" wide, is starting to be laid. Here you can see the center island that has been removed on the right hand side of the picture.

Here is a picture of the floor completed, but yet to be finished with 5 coats of two part high gloss polyurethane.



Here is a picture of the completed floor with five coats of two part polyurethane. You can see we have started moving furniture back aboard.

Here's the reupholstered L shaped couch back in the boat. The table in the foreground houses the trash compactor.

The master suite is done complete with new drapes, new matresses, new wallpaper and corian sink top in the head, and teak and holly floor.

The quest quarters up in the bow are also complete.

New instrument panel that Chuck has fabricated out of DekOLite.

Chuck standing next to a full length bench seat being added accross the back of the sun deck. This is also fabricated from DekOLite and only weighs about 80 pounds.

ODYSSEE just about ready to go!