Finished the last coat of varnish on this round of wood work. Also finished glueing the trim to the binnicle rack. Just need to clean it up now before I do the next round of varnishing.
Got 5 yards of Sunbrella in the mail and will try my hand at sewing again. Don’t really want to take on any more wood work before Amy and I leave for Halifax.
Henry found a little bird in the shop this weekend. We had had a hail storm and it looks like the bird got in my shed and was probably in there a few days before Henry found him. Anyway, Amy caught it and I ended up taking care of and hand feeding it long enough for it to get well.
Been working the wet locker model. Actually, I had started with just the panel doors and got a little carried away. The whole thing really needs to be modeled first though. Comments on door construction and ideas on style would be appreciated. Thanks Elliot for the article on panel doors.
Things are ramping up at work again, so I am finding it hard to find time to work on the boat. I did manage to assemble the binnicle binocular/cup rack from pieces of the previous binnicle compass/binnocular/cup rack. Yes, it makes sense and it looks good too. Had to recut the trim I had orginally made because I got a little agressive with the router. The new trim looks better anyway and I started glueing it on this afternoon.
Spent a few evenings working some models of the anchor locker doors in SketchUp. Had a hard time finding good references on cabinet doors. Most of the boat building books have some information, but not a lot. I also started designing the wet locker cabinet doors. Will try to knock them all out at the same time.
Started another round of varnishing. Engine room vents and compass binnicle.
I have spent way too much time working on the compass binnicle, but I think, that now, I have finally got something that will work. Wait, I forgot, I still have the compass binnicle rack to complete. First thing I did was draw out the pattern I had made back in Halifax onto a 5/8″ piece of plywood which I jigsawed and sanded to shape. After that it, was a matter of routing to the jig and carving out the underside inset (also with the router). I left a little bit to take off once I mount it, but the final shape is near complete and I’ll probably varnish what I have just to get it one step farther along.
Spent the week in Halifax working on the boat and stayed with Brian. Of course, I was excited to see my boat after the fire. In all, it was dirty, with soot covering every inch of the deck. The mahogony pieces that Amy and I put on the bowsprit last year were covered, couldn’t even tell they were wood. I spent some time sweeping the deck, but the hull and interior still needs a good cleaning.
The insulation looked great and am glad it had the fireproof paint applied. I spent some time cleaning up the interior tape and plastic laid down by the insulation guys. Will need to chip out some areas where holes still need to be drilled through the deck but that should not be a problem.
Worked on the compass binnicle. Since I am not going to put the box I built on it, I ground it down to a nice shapely platform which I intend to cap with mahogony. Something simple.
The engine room vents looked great and got some nice comments on them. I ended up bringing them back to be varnished.
I spent at least a day grounding down weld seams with the angle grinder. I must get one of those tools. Found it very satisfying to clean up the seams a bit. The seams around the wheel house got ground too. Really wish I had got the hatch on the plane.
I took a lot of measurements of the forepeak area with YachtSmith’s carpender Steve. The intention was to collect enough measurements to restruct the forepeak in my Austin shed with the idea of putting a desk up forward. However, after I modeled it, Steve and I thought that the bunks should be push forward a frame and nix the idea of a desk in favor of two small couchs on either side of a table near the galley. I’ll post a model soon.
Brian introduced me to the owner Kevin, of NorseBoats down in Lunenburg and I went down to see his shop. He builds a very pretty daysailor in an extremely clean shop. His website has pictures of his boats. Now I want to build one.
