I created a rather rude and crude cockpit enclosure for my Formosa 46 sailboat. The enclosure is intended to permit me to sit out in my cockpit on a cold, sunny winter day. Some of the pictures show a red outline around my “dodger”, which was built by a professional canvas-making company (Little Bay Canvas) here in Norfolk, VA. The dodger was built a few years prior to me jumping into the “enclosure” project. I tried to use some of their construction details as a guide for my own construction details. For other parts of the enclosure design, I just tried to “wing it”, and some of my ideas turned out better than others. Overall, if I was going to do it over, I would create a more simple design. Still, it looks reasonably good at a distance, which is about all I can hope for with most of my projects. I tinkered with the project on and off for roughly 3 years before I finished it.

These are the original sketches I made before starting the project.