More doors

Last weekend I managed to sand the front of doors and drawer front panel for the galley and then put on coat of primer/undercoat followed by the first coat of gloss I also cut out the doors for the heads locker and the steering gear compartment in the aft cabin.

The first job on Monday morning was to set up the doors in the heads and the aft cabin so that I could mark out the finger holes for the door catches, these were then cut out with a 38mm hole saw.

Heads 

Aft cabin

Once I had cut out the holes in the doors I went on to epoxy wooden blocks to the mouldings to provide a mount for the fixed part of the door/drawer catches, the mount for the galley door catches are simply screwed to the limber cross member. 

Heads locker showing mounting for the door catch

From Wednesday on wards the weather has been far too cold for work involving glue and paint so work on the doors has come to a temporary halt, hopefully it will be warm enough next week to proceed with this project as the doors are a bit of a drawn out job requiring some filler in places and several coats of paint on each side plus wood stain and varnish for the trim.

To round off the week I spent some time fairing the thickened epoxy filler which I had applied to various holes in the heads sole moulding I had filled these holes some time ago finishing had not been a priority job but as the weather had effectively stopped work I decided to get this job out of the way.

Heads sole cleaned up

I am not sure what I will finally do with the heads sole moulding I had thought about re gelcoating but as there will be a shower in there a shiny gelcoat finish will be a bit slippery just add soap, the cover for the shower sump also needs some attention as the current finish is peeling off/discoloured.