| Kaholee Refit |
April 12, 2007 I spent most of the day on various bits of trim--installing, milling, and additional steps. First, I unclamped the two subassemblies for the sea hood, and then glued the two sections together--forming one large piece--with epoxy. I set this aside. |
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After putting it off for some time, I decided to fillet the inside of the holding tank while I was in epoxy mode. Since the tank wouldn't remain quite square on its own, I hot melt-glued a right triangle made of scrap plywood inside the square corner of the tank to hold the tank in the proper orientation, and then installed thickened epoxy fillets along the insides of the stitched seams. |
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Next, I worked on installing some of the interior trim--fiddles on the two bookshelves (port and starboard) and on the sink countertop. In each case, I glued and screwed the trim in place for strength; I countersunk the screw holes so that I could install bungs to hide them later. It took several trips up and down the ladder to cut and fit the two sink fiddles properly. I discovered that installation of a few pieces of trim that I had hoped to do depended on the installation of other, non-related trim pieces, so that set back some of the hopeful progress a bit. Actually, there wasn't a ladder into the cabin: I had removed (yesterday) the temporary interior piece that had been holding the companionway ladder in place. But it was purely ridiculous to get in and out of the boat without this ladder in place, so I temporarily reinstalled the old trim (with ladder brackets in place) until I could mill and varnish its new replacement--which I worked on next, along with the side pieces of the interior trim. |
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I decided it made sense to reuse a few of the old interior trim pieces, namely the door frame into the head from the saloon--which had been previously set up to support a louvered door that we planned to reuse--and the fiddles for the shelves in the v-berth. The old wood cleaned up nicely with some sanding, and when varnished its color matched the new mahogany very well. Between sanding these pieces, and milling and sanding some additional new pieces for the interior, these chores filled most of the afternoon, including time to clean them up and apply the first coat of varnish. |
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