Galley again

Work on the galley has been held up by the cold spell last week I have made the front panels for the lockers behind the cooker but it has not been possible to paint the inside of the locker or the the reverse side of the front panels which I need to do before I can attach the sliding doors. In the meantime I have started on the locker at the forward end of the galley this will have tee shaped openings for the crockery stowage I have made the lower front panel, which now needs the openings cutting out, and started on the upper front panel.

Lower locker

Lower crockery stowage

Whilst waiting for the weather to warm up I began installing the wiring for the concealed LED strip lights each of these luminaires has two negative connections one for white light and one for red night vision lighting control will be by means of an on/off/on three position switch and as there will be six of these luminaires in total I required a means of connecting all the negatives in a tidy fashion with only two negative cables arriving at the control switch . After much searching I found a 3 x 6 spade connection bus bar on the Fearneaux Riddall website which will meet the requirements without breaking the bank. The plan is to put one on each side of the saloon so that the lighting on each side can be switched on and off independently these will in turn be connected to a third unit so that only two negative cables  are connected to the night vision/white lighting mode control the supplies to the lighting in the heads will also be taken from this system as they will have the same white/night vision lighting arrangement. The starboard bus bar will be installed when I have decided on the locker arrangements on that side of the saloon. A 2 x 6 spade connection bus bar is also available which I will probably use for distribution to the over bunk reading lights in the fore and aft cabins. Whilst working on the wiring I also connected the supplies for the VHF and the chart plotter, I am beginning to think about batteries so that I can test some of this kit.

Port side bus bar

Main lighting bus bar

I had a delivery from B&Q last Thursday of some of the solid laminate worktop material but unfortunately the piece for the galley was out of stock no prior warning I only found out after calling them to complain that half the order was missing I have bought all sorts of stuff for this project from the internet with very little trouble mostly from smaller firms who have all told me at the time of order if stuff was unavailable but it seems the big companies are a different story it will be another two weeks before the rest of the material turns up they did try for three weeks but after some discussion it was two weeks.

Over the weekend I cut out the worktop for the heads washbasin and there was sufficient material left for the small area in the aft cabin which I cut out I have just laid these pieces in place for the time being, as I have not yet got the washbasin, at least it covers the hole in the heads moulding.

Heads washbasin position

Worktop in place

Aft cabin

Finally today with a rise in temperature I managed to get a coat of paint in the locker behind the cooker and on the backs of the locker front panels no photograph I am afraid as by the time I had finished it was time to pack up and go home.