Yesterday, (Saturday) saw a ton of different projects in progress. First off, I went to the hardware store and bought fixtures for the head. I picked up a paper roll holder, a hand towel ring, and a robe/towel hook. I did not know where to put them so now the admiral has officially stepped in and helped with some work. She told me where to put it!, (the parts, that is!
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I had shown the short dinette table in pics the other day, but did not show my intentions for the seating area. Below you will find some pics of the dinette as a u-shaped seating area. My plan is to take one of our current cusiohns and shrink it to properly fill the gap between seats across the table top. Then we will eventually get new foam and find more of the same material or a complementary material to make seat backs from, so that there is a homogenous feel to the upholstery.
I pulled the two winches from the parts boat yesterday, (Barlow 2-speed 18's) disassembled them and got them into the solvent tank. A 2 - 3 hour soak and there were still stubborn parts... This boat had sat abandoned under a Pecan tree, and there was tons of goop and corrosion in the winches. Eventually everything came apart, and I was able to smooth out the rough edges and get them put back together. One of the cog springs was broken, (1 of 8) so all in all not too bad. They now spin properly and smoothly in both speeds, so the purchase price of the parts boat has already paid off.
While I had the winches apart, I made a marking template to provide locations for the thru-holes in the cabin top to mount the winches. I drilled holes in the template just big enough to mark the bolt locations. Having marked the hole locations, I drilled over-size holes in the cabin top and dug out the core adjacent to the holes. They were then filled with thickended West epoxy and left to cure. A note: Even with the slow cure hardener, the addition of fillers, (in this case, colloidal silica) will speed up the "kick" time, so plan your work appropriately to prevent working with hardening epoxy.
While I had the epoxy mixed up, I took the time to bed in a piece of mahogany backing board for the tiller pilot buushing. A PO had installed a 3/8ths bushing in the cockpit seat, but put it in the wrong place. The old busing location placed the tiller straight in-line with the keel when fully retracted; it would steer to starboard, but could not steer to port. The new bushing plants the tiller parallel with the keel with the ram half-extended, per the manufacturer's recommendations.
I have a new set of sole mats being made. The old mats were suitable for patterns, but needed marked. The new mats will have a striped pattern that mimic teak and holly sole, so I had to mark the "grain" and adjacent edges for the guys doing the cutting and the binding. Notice the notes, "grain" stripes and adjacent edge markings in the old mats.
Finally a couple of weeks ago, I wired in the new knot meter and depth finder. The guy I bought the boat from had installed them but had not wired them. The depth finder is on its own power circuit, and the illumination for both is provided by the running lights circuit. Check ot the pics and enjoy!
