Keep the weight central. Try and balance heavy items on one side of the boat to the other. Build in lots of cupboards, within reasons, every cupboard has a door and at least 2 hinges. I decided to have the galley up - could have gone down into the hulls but that centreboard cases get in the way of where you would normally put the galley, cutting these out seemed like a bad idea - and yeah the boat is big enough to handle the galley up. Each side of the boat is almost a mirror of the other side, 2 showers and toiliet - 2 pumps etc so failure of one should only mean a minor irritation

Materials and Finishing

This really chewed up the time - not particularly building the furniture but finishing both the hull sides and just the general surfaces everywhere. The original plan was to paint everything - apart from the floors, but a visit to the boat show put me onto vinyl on the ceilings, and maybe some hull liner here and there. Almost everywhere else is painted, which means plenty of sanding and priming and sanding etc. I wanted to use Nidaplat from Boat Craft Pacific as I knew the product (I had used it before), but a problem in their factory meant I had to look for something else. I did after a couple of false starts I ended up using PolyCore, we vacuum bagged our own panels - 400 grm glass on one side and laminate or ply on the other side.