Doors

I have had several distractions this week which means that I did not get as much done as I had planned I managed to finish cutting and fitting all the remaining edge trim for the doors over the weekend so the first job on Monday morning was to apply three coats of wood dye. The Colron wood dye is water soluble and dries ready for re coating in about an hour so that it could all be done in a day.

Edge trim after three coats of wood dye

I finished off what was going to be a short day by starting to fit the edge trim to the aft galley locker door.

First thing this morning I finished the edge trim to the aft galley door and drilled the holes for the hinge attachment screws it just needs the edge trim to be varnished.

Aft galley locker door

I then moved on to fitting the edge trim to the doors for the under sink locker in the heads these now just require some varnish before they can be fitted.

Heads locker doors

The two doors for the steering gear compartment have the liner for the finger hole fitted they just need the edge trim fitting which is all ready and will be the first job next week.

Aft cabin doors awaiting edge trim

While I was at home yesterday I cut some plywood to make a door for the space under the cooker, this will need to be made up from two thicknesses of plywood due to the step in the moulding, see photograph below.

Opening under the cooker

In the original fit out the step was infilled with plywood flush to the darker coloured area of the moulding. The door will be a drop in type with a latch at the top to match the other doors the plan is to rough out the door over the weekend for final fitting next week when hopefully all will be revealed.

I went to the Kent Boat Jumble last Sunday but due to the threatened wet weather few stall holders turned up it was so bad that the entry charge was reduced to £2 from the usual £4 I did find a decent length of octoplait to make up a second long mooring warp so not a totally wasted journey.