Bought the wood for the sides of the lockers this past friday. Orginally I planned to spline/glue 4 5″ wide pieces together, but there was some 11″ inch stock which I picked up instead. I’ll probably grove out a 5″ pattern like there is in the drawings so as the sides won’t be so plain, but at least the glueing will be easier. Also I ended up cutting for biscuits instead of a spline since I had a biscuit cutter for the router I had forgotten about. Anyway, that was the task for the weekend. I cut down all the sides after first having the planks planed to .5″. Then I biscuit routed them all. Didn’t get to glueing since it was 35 degrees most of the weekend. May get to it during the week.
Got back to routing the legs of the propane lockers this week. Finished the remaining 4 and then got busy with the frames for the propane locker tops. I decided to biscuit the top frames together so cutting them down was a simple matter of running them through the table saw for the various cuts. We’ll see how this goes. Its been very cold up in Halifax (-20 brrrr), but I talked to Brian for a while this morning. Ryan has been welding on the drive shaft trying to finish that up, but may wait to finish till it gets warmer. Brian also said that they got space for one or two new boats to build. The exchange rate is 125%, so for every $4k I send up there it turns into $5k. Now is the time to build!!!
Back to the propane lockers at least. I ended up redesigning the lockers a few times and settled on the below design. Basically they are simple wooden lockers that hold a propane tank each. I got the mahogony this last friday and made a jig to cut the legs to shape. After making a rough cut of all 8 legs with the table saw, I started shaping with the router. I only made it through 4 legs when my router bit started to tear out chunks of the wood. I ended up getting another bit, but to late route the other legs.
Back from Xmas/New Year travels and ready to begin working on Tesha again. My parents gave me a 35lb CQR anchor they picked up at a yard sale for $3.00. It is a little light for a primary anchor for a 30,000lb boat, but it will do fine as a lunch hook. I gave myself a 55lb Delta as a Xmas present which I ordered from West Marine two days ago. Should be here in a week, so we’ll have two anchors to drive up in July. Captain Wally, a childhood friend of my father and a good friend to me, gave us a Mark 15 sextant and a GPS unit for the boat. Yay, now I can practice shoot’n the sun. Thanks Mom/Dad, and Wally.
The two other pictures are from the trip last November. Scott and I begin paneling the engine room with 1/2″ marine plywood.
