"Whoop-dee-do" I hear you say. Sure, it's a very nice plywood box, but so what?
It's actually a recessed shelf unit I have made for the starboard cabin, since the original is missing (as is the one from the port side in the master stateroom). The only one still present is the one in the port cabin, and the back of it is fairly rotten. The original units were built right up against the hull, with ribs passing through them, which was clearly not a great idea. Some warm humid tropical air, some cooler water, and voila, you have a moisture trap. I'm guessing the old ones were knackered when they ran the genset exhausts and they just binned them. So I have made the new unit as a suspended box off the bulkhead, with plenty of room for airflow around it.
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| Screwed, glued and epoxy saturated, and test fitting into the existing bulkhead panel. White oak frame for fastening into the panel. |
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| It fits! The missing upper panel I have already prepped for painting. |
Now I have to take everything out, including the bulkhead panels, sand them down and repaint. Then I have a lot of teak trim to make up to fit over all the screw holes etc - all the original trim is long gone.
And just in case you were suffering from varnish withdrawal...
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| Stripped and fixing some old repairs that were not that well done. |
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| Gleaming. |
