Catamaran Rear Steps take shape

One of the things that stood out about a Catamaran was the easy access (excuse the pun). Both sides had a set of stairs that raised you on top of the world before you had even unlocked the doors.

We had chosen to add a couple of things here, which did add to the building time, however does pay dividends.

After carefully cutting into the hull, the initial rear step construction started to take shape. The plans called for two steps.

Design/construction was planned at two days per side and soon it was time for a trial before gluing. Keegan ran up and down a few times and it was obvious at this stage that the step height for our boat anyway, had to be smaller.

 

The only way to do this was to insert third step that meant re cutting the hull and another two days of work. To provide a psychological appearance of size on our lower step platform, all steps were designed narrower in width on the inside than the outside giving this neat slight swirl effect.

We also chose to put 5mm drop from the rear of each step to the front as well as from outside to inside. This was to provide water runoff at all times. The last thing we wanted was for someone to take a slide because of standing water that we could reduce.