Not too hard.....
I have just done this on my 80. If you just need to do some basic maintenance on your engine, I would leave your galley where it is and try to access the engine as best you can. If you are doing major rebuild on the engine, removing the galley would be worth the effort. After all the work I did to get my galley out then back in, I don't ever plan to remove it again.... Here are the basic steps as I remember... 1) Remover the teak strip along the front edge of the galley. This is the one at the bottom front that attached the galley to the fiberglass. It is about 2" heigh by 10" long. 2) Inside the galley, remove the screws that hold the galley down into the fiberglass that the gallet rests on. 3) The counter top of the galley is a solid peice that extends inside the sliding shelf unit along the port side. There will be several screws from the top that need to be removed. I took out the entire shelving unit since I was refinishing everything. 4) I separated the top from the cabinet below so I could slide the top out and up. To do this I took off the plumbing (which has to be done regardless) and sinks....again I was refinishing everthing and putting on new counter tops so I did not mind the dismantling. However, from what I remember on mine, I had trouble trying to remove the galley as one unit so elected to separate into two. Plus, I was working alone and was going to have trouble lifting all that stuff together off the boat... 5) The screws along the bottom of the top and the inside top of the cabinets must be also removed, if you are going to separate everything. 6) Then, with all screws removed, start wiggling the galley loose, if it is stuborn, look for some hidden screws somewhere that might have been missed. 7) I think the trickiest thing was realising that there were several screws thru the top of the counter top surface up inside the sliding cabinet area. Becarefull in there, there are many screws holding that assy together. Be sure to get all of them out that maybe somehow screwed into the galley top. As I mentioned you may have to loosen up the sliding door shelving unit to allow enough play to enable you to slide the galley as a whole or just the top out from under it. It is not too hard, just take your time and don't force anything too much. If it doesn't feel loose, there is probably a hidden screw still waiting to be found. I believe there are also some past articles in the archives.... Good Luck, Paul
