I’ve never heard “Wiggers” in association with my boat. (Not to imply that there’s anything wrong with Wiggers!) As I understood it, all moldings, keel, and some other major parts were already made and/or acquired by Hinterhoeller before they went backrupt. They just weren’t assembled. I’ve actually talked to one guy who was on the finishing crew and I got the impression that it was just an ad-hoc assemblage of the old crew from the factory. They took what they got from Hinterhoeller and sourced the rest from the same suppliers as original. The interior woodwork is mostly to the design, but with some minor custom touches.
But I could be totally mistaken on any and all parts of the story because it’s just an accumulation of stories and hearsay and such. I know there are current Nonsuch owners who have owned their boats since before that time. There wasn’t all of this social media back then, so maybe nobody knew what was going on, or maybe they did. The boat won some sort of overall prize at the Nonsuch nationals in 1997, so maybe people sat around and chatted with the owner about his ordeal at that time. If so, I’d love to hear about it.
Back to the thread…
My reference to cooling was that the engine box is going to get hot inside. If you don’t remove the heat it will find its own way out. Heat moves from where it is to where it ain’t. And hot air rises, so not much is going to go out through the hull. Most will go up through the cockpit sole or through the sides of your enclosure. The progression of the heat through the sides and top of the box will be much slower than you are accustomed, to, so the vents in your lazarette will probably have time to remove most of it and keep that area much cooler. As I said, my refrigeration equipment is in roughly the same place as yours and it keeps my large refrigerator bin quite cold at a setting of 4 (on a 0-7 scale).
A useful photo of the bulkhead from inside of the lazarette may take time. Here’s what I’ve been able to find on my computer. Not great, but hopefully helpful.
You are in the lazarette looking forward toward the aft bulkhead of the engine box. You can see the access door (with one of the toggles unlatched!) Remove that and there’s the engine. But it is impossible for me to get into this space, I was just looking in from the area near the transom. To access the engine you must lean in through a door in the port bulkhead.
So, look at the red arrow. It points to that access door. That port bulkhead goes from hull to the bottom corner of the cockpit sole and from the cabin almost back to the rudder post. It seems to be structural to me. The green arrow points to the matching bulkhead on the starboard side. On the other side of it is the quarterberth - as apparently is true on yours, too.
It appears that the only actual boxing that was required was adding that aft engine bulkhead with the door.
Oh, the gray arrow points to the exhaust hose. Those white hoses above it are for venting fumes. The plywood is not fitted carefully around these, but the sound isolation material is.
This is the only thing I’ve got looking at the bulkhead from inside of the lazarette. It’s a clip I took out of a longer video that I took for a different purpose and most of it was not relevant. This is the lazarette side of that door that the red arrow is pointing to, above. So the bulkhead directly ahead in this video is actually kind of even with the aft engine-box bulkhead.
(If it looks kind of battered and dirty in there, it’s where fenders go, so maybe that’s why. It came that way and I’ve never really thought much about it until seeing it in this video.)
