In this pic I have painted the bulkhead but have not attached the fuzzy hull liner, the bow-locker door, or the chain-locker doors. The hull liner is the roll wrapped in cardboard paper lying on the bunktop.
I am not going to paint the faux-teak bow-locker bulkhead, just for old-times' sake, to show the original fabric of the boat as-built. The small holes in the stem are awaiting the fitting of the stem fitting (see here).
In this pic also can be seen my method for securing the forward hatch: small cord tied to eyestraps on the hatch, the same as my dad did on our 31' plywood yawl in 1962.
The fiddles on the hull shelves, port and starboard, are made high enough to make bins. These will hold sailbags (it's a small boat!) and other stuff the way the old ones (about 2" high) never would have done. Above, as though a facia covering the toerail bolts, will go a similar board to hold hooks from which sail bags, fenders, dock lines and other things can be hung. As such, this space becomes a bona-fide forepeak, nothing like what's found on even much, much larger yachts.
The varnished board down the center of the underside of the deck is, in this pic, just sort of stuck there. It is meant to catch the bolts and backing plates of the foredeck cleat, the inner-forestay's attaching plate, and the anchor winch.
I am not happy about the gaps along the top of the chain-locker bulkheads (to port and starboard here) against the underside of the deck but will leave the fitting of some varnished trim for some later date!
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