Galley

The first job on Monday was to finish the lining to the forward bulkhead in the aft cabin just a couple of narrow strips either side of the engine access panels it was not worth trying to do it all in one piece a lot less waste this way. Once this was complete I lined the narrow horizontal plywood panel which fits across the aft end of this cabin.

Horizontal panel

The rest of the week has been taken up with assembling and fitting the galley drawer front panel and the adjacent infill panel I had managed to stain the edge trim pieces over last weekend so it just needed to be pinned and glued around the two panels I used brass pins and Evo-Stik Sticks Like Sh*t white grab adhesive. Once the edge trim had been secured I started by fitting the front panel to the draw this proved to be a bit tricky trying to get the panel in the correct position so that it would latch properly when closed. In order to make sure that both panels were properly aligned I clamped a straight piece of timber to the front of the moulding before marking the fixing positions. The B&Q drawer box does have a limited amount of adjustment for the position of the front panel both horizontally and vertically but I did find that I had to adjust the position of the draw runners before everything worked in a satisfactory manner, the drawer runners have a number of slotted holes to allow adjustment then once everything is working correctly the runners can be finally secured with screws through the circular fixing holes. 

Setting panels in position

Drawer front panel fitted

The edge trim still requires varnishing I think I have got a reasonable colour match certainly with the teak ring for the finger hole we shall see after the varnish has been applied.

During this week at home I made a start on the edge trim for the two doors for the galley which I hope to complete over the weekend there is a bit more work involved as the hinges have to be fitted also as I am using cranked hinges which are designed for 10mm thick doors, and I have made the doors from 12mm plywood, I have to produce some 2mm stainless packing pieces.

New spray hood

This week has been a day short so I didn't get to Conyer until Wednesday morning James from Channel Sail and Canvass arrived to fit the new spray hood.

New spray hood

James was recommended to me by a friend and he has certainly made a first class job of the new spray hood. While the spray hood was being fitted I got on with finishing the headlining on the starboard side of the saloon the forward plywood panel required some final fitting before I glued on the lining carpet and screwed it into place.

Saloon starboard side headlining

There is a bit of difference in most of the photographs for this post as my camera gave up the ghost and I had to resort to my phone I think that it was because I had put the old battery in and it would appear to be totally dead.

Last weekend I made a start on the edging for the various locker doors and drawer front panels that I am working on now that both sides have been painted.

Locker doors and drawer front panels

Fitting edging to dummy draw front panel

Today I made a start on lining the forward bulkhead of the aft cabin by going over it with a scraper to remove any old glue, loose paint etc. This was followed by cutting out the lining carpet I had to do it in two pieces as the bulkhead is too wide to do it in one, the carpet comes in 2 metre wide rolls and the bulkhead is about 2650mm wide. The next job was to glue the two pieces in place, doing it in two pieces was a much easier proposition even if the carpet had been wide enough.

Aft cabin bulkhead lining

The overhead panels have only been temporarily replaced as I will need to remove them again when I remove the two cabin side panels to replace the doors and fit some new shelves.

Even more headlining

On Monday morning I started by putting some additional timber to support the headlining panel in the quarter berth and once this was complete I did some final fitting to the aft head lining panel for the starboard side of the saloon I had originally made the panels for this area in two parts some time ago. I had decided to make them in two parts to make fitting a bit easier. I had ordered the lining carpet last weekend and it arrived on Tuesday so that first thing on Wednesday morning I could get on with covering the starboard aft panel, the small panel for the bookshelf and the panel for the quarter berth this just left a small area of the aft saloon bulkhead to be covered and once this was done I could fit the small panel for the bookshelf and the starboard aft overhead panel.

Starboard side saloon just the forward overhead panel to fit

The first job today was to line the inboard longitudinal bulkhead in the quarter berth this turned out to be a bit of an awkward job as the lining has to go behind the water tank filling pipe but I succeeded by coating the whole bulkhead with adhesive and then coating the lower 200mm of the carpet and once it had gone tacky I secured the lower edge and then sprayed adhesive onto the next 200mm  and so on until I reached the top, I used the same method for the long length on the starboard side of the saloon which made fitting a lot easier, it is easy to get into a sticky mess when lining vertical surfaces by applying carpet direct to the surface I find using panels for overhead surfaces much easier as I can lay the carpet on a flat surface sticky side up and then just place the panel straight down on it. I finished off the job by fitting the previously lined overhead panel into the quarter berth.

Quarter berth overhead panel

Getting a good photograph in the quarter berth is just about impossible, the aft bulkhead still needs to be tidied up and it also needs a new door to be manufactured and fitted to the void space.On the homework front I have been able to get two coats of gloss white paint on the backs of the various locker doors during this week so that I should be able to progress these items a bit further this weekend

  

Back to headlining

Over last weekend I managed to complete the painting of one side of the various locker doors hopefully the weather will warm up a bit next week so that I can start painting the backs of the doors, I was hoping to be fitting them by now. There is still plenty of work to be done but at the moment I am running out of stuff to do it with so I had a bit of a trawl round and found the lining carpet that I had cut out some time ago for the starboard side of the saloon and so after finishing scraping down the inside of the hull I glued it in place which has tidied things up nicely in this area, this was the last usable piece of lining carpet left although I do have a bag full of odds and ends which may come in useful sometime. I already have the panels made for the under deck area just need to order some more lining carpet for this and several other areas.

Saloon starboard side 

I spent some time spiral wrapping the single core cables running through the port side of the aft cabin this is a bit of a laborious task as previously described some time ago, the action of winding the stuff round the cables tends to tighten up the spiral so every so often there is a need to stop and unwind it.

Today I made and fitted two plywood headlining panels one for the quarter berth and a small one which fits at the end of the bookshelf, see last weeks blog post, just awaiting some lining carpet which hopefully will arrive early next week if this awful weather does not hold things up.

Quarter berth headlining panel

Small panel for bookshelf

That's about it this weeks efforts don't look much but things are further forward than they were on Monday.