Removing port side furniture

[towlerg]

I'm trying to remove the bukk and the woodwork around the cooking
stove. The problem I have is that the fibre glass "tube" that runs
under the port side bunk is glassed in - preventing access to the
nuts on the screws running along the bottom edge of the bunk front
(the piece of wood with two sliding door mounted on it).

Hard to know if the "tube" was damaged and repaired by some previous
owner or if it was glassed-in after the bunk front was installed.

Also even after romoving the screws holding the forward bulkhead of
the cooking stove I can't see how to remove it nondestructivly, it
seems to be one lump, glued together and the the aft bulkhead.

Appreciate any input.

George "Vista" 1043

 

[alan_critchlow]

Well I just gave it a good whack. Our Vega 1639 had this "tube"
atached to the hull with a fibregalss putty.

You can see where it was attached uner the blue paper towel

http://www3.sympatico.ca/fa.critchlow/Tank4.jpg

I hope this helps

Alan

 

[alan_critchlow]

I whacked the tube and with a little chiseling came out. It is not
attached to the plywood save for screws. The tube is only two sided.
The other two sides are the hull and the berth trunk. Most of the
galley is glued together. It can be carefully pried apart. With epoxy
and cotton fibers will glue back together.

The plywood of the interior has to be replaced on our Vega. An oil
leak over the years had stained a lot of the wood. It also has
started to delaminate.

I am going to work on the boat tommorow I will upload some more
pictures to my site.Alan
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