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| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 I continued in the interior, this time with the starboard settee front. This settee would be full-length, so I used an 18" wide strip of an 8' sheet of plywood and, following the same basic process as yesterday, scribed and cut the piece to fit. The settee would ultimately be longer than 8' (closer to 10' or more), but for the moment, I worked only on the 8' length; once that was permanently installed, it'd be easier to line up and cut the remaining section required. |
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Once the starboard piece was cut and fit properly, I secured both port and starboard sides with Pro-Set adhesive, using a variety of braces and hot-melt glue to hold the settee fronts in place and plumb, as well as a consistent distance from each other. I left these to cure for an hour or so during lunchtime. |
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The Pro-Set cured quickly enough to allow additional work fairly soon, so after lunch I began to lay out the forward bulkhead that would define the galley on the port side, and also provide part of the mounting for the range. I set up a scrap of plywood that I carefully plumbed and secured perpendicular to the settee front, and then used a tick strip to mark off the contours of the hull. |
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I transferred the marks made with the tick strip to some cardboard and cut it out for a test fit. The fit was good, so I transferred the pattern to some 1/2" cherry veneer plywood, with the good side facing forward; the after side would eventually be covered with other materials. |
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After a test fit, I made marks for an additional cut across the top of the new bulkhead at the appropriate height: 2" above the expected finished countertop height of 36" from the sole, a standard countertop height. I cut the bulkhead to size, and covered the forward, finish face with tape and paper to protect it from fingerprints, etc. during installation and later construction, then glued the bulkhead in place with Pro-Set. I added another mahogany cleat to the inside of the bulkhead so I could secure the aft end of the port settee front. Later, I'd add tabbing to further reinforce the glued connections of the new structure. |
 
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