Progress in the Cabin

The focus in recent days has been on the two shelves that will be located on the galley partition inside the cabin, as well as continued work on the electrical system.

The last post showed the oak face frame assembled.  Below, the frame and two shelves are temporarily fit in place:

Note that the top shelf is so brightly illuminated because the ceiling panel in that area is not yet installed.

The next step was to sand everything and apply a first coat of polyurethane.

Today, after cutting the missing ceiling panel, we assembled the shelves.  Here is the finished product:

Left to do is fill in the nail holes and install oak plugs in the screw holes through the top rail (which is screwed into the main yoke overhead.)  The ceiling panel is in place on the top shelf, but not yet installed.  Eventually, the plan calls to close these shelves with roll-up tambours made from 1/4" thick white oak with beveled edges.  A fallback position would be to fabricate doors matching those on the electrical cavity.  In this case the bottom two doors would fold down with a 90 degree stop, and the top two doors would open up.

There will be no new posts for a few days; I leave tomorrow for a four-day fishing excursion on Block Island, RI.  If the past couple years are any indicator, we will thoroughly thrash the waters with all manner of lures and have no fish.  Fish or not, it will be a fulfilling diversion.