110 Cookson Lane | Whitefield, ME 04353 | 207-232-7600 | tim@lackeysailing.com
To prepare for additional vertical work on the port settee back structure in the near future, I drilled out for and installed bungs in more of the screw holes left over from the beadboard installation. At the same time, I bunged holes in portions of the starboard settee panels.
I spent much of the morning working on cleats for interim shelving in the port settee lockers. After making various measurements, I milled cherry cleat stock to support the shelves, then cut pieces to length and installed them on the vertical dividers. I also milled support cleats for the back panel, which I'd install soon, but left off for now to make it easier to measure and install the shelving.
At the same time, using similar cleat stock, I installed cleats on the upper dividers in the starboard settee lockers, in the after two of the three sections. The forwardmost locker, like the one beneath it, seemed too narrow to make installing a shelf worthwhile.
Next, I templated and then cut 1/2" plywood shelves for the spaces in the port locker.
Anxious to wrap up the construction of both settees, I masked off borders for paint on the lockers as required, as I'd done earlier on the starboard lower lockers. Then, I applied 2-part epoxy primer to the relatively fresh epoxy adhesive in these areas (mainly where the dividers were secured to the hull) as needed. This was an additional step--required since the paint I used would not properly cure over too-fresh epoxy--that I normally preferred to avoid whenever possible, and usually I could time things to allow the epoxy to cure before proceeding, but in this instance it made sense to apply the tie-coat so I could wrap up the settee locker construction sooner than later and move on to other interior projects.
Total Time on This Job Today: 6.25 hours
