110 Cookson Lane | Whitefield, ME 04353 | 207-232-7600 | tim@lackeysailing.com
Now that the paint was complete above the port settee, I removed the tape and made final preparations to install the shelves and front panel permanently.
I cut and installed additional support cleats along the bottom edge and the edges of the three dividers to help secure the front panel, and installed the shelving permanently with screws.
Next, I installed the front panel with glue and screws, and and bunged the screw holes.
This completed the major construction work on the settee backs and lockers, though I'd be making a minor change to the port upper locker at some point; the owner decided he preferred to mount the Bose radio elsewhere, such as on a shelf outboard of the nav station, rather than in the recess I'd created, so I planned to simply combine the two aftermost stacked openings into a single opening of the same size as the other three by cutting away the roughly one-inch center band of plywood that separated the two smaller openings. Fortunately, the size of the original Bose cutout was easily adaptable to this plan, and I could effect the modification with the panel in place.
The galley area was one of the last remaining significant interior construction projects, along with the head compartment, and I turned my focus now to the galley and icebox areas. The icebox liner still required insulation, which I'd do soon, but I was waiting for some spray foam to fill small voids, so I postponed the insulation a bit more.
In the meantime, I had to build a support system for the large drawer in the galley, beneath the stove location. I'd removed the original system, which had hung from the countertop, long ago. To begin, I made up some simple runners from hardwood, using two pieces of wood glued together to form an "L" shape. These would support the sides of the drawers and provide the bearing surface.
I inserted the drawer in its opening and clamped the runners to the sides, then leveled the drawer and made some reference marks on the sides of the cabinet space at the appropriate heights. This gave me a starting point for some support cleats, which I cut and installed on each athwartships bulkhead.
I ran additional cleats fore-and-aft between the bulkhead cleats, which gave me a place to secure the drawer runners. I secured all the various sections together with glue and screws.
To prevent the drawer from tipping when pulling it out, I installed a brace across the top of the drawer, supported with a plywood frame at the outboard end and to the inside of the galley structure at the other end.
In the after galley compartment, I installed a plywood shelf in the corner to provide a mounting area for the remote compressor from the Engel countertop refrigerator. I supported the shelf with cleats on each bulkhead, and secured it with glue and screws.
I vacuumed and solvent-washed the insides of the galley lockers, then applied a coat of gray Bilgekote to all surfaces, leaving an untreated area in the after compartment where I planned to install the galley sink (and icebox) drain through hull fitting.
Finally, I applied additional epoxy fairing compound to the undersides of the sidedecks inboard of the settee cabinetry, mainly on the starboard side to continue filling the large void there, but also a small area on the port side.
Total Time on This Job Today: 7.5 hours
