Progress Update: October 28th

 'Loading the skiff'

DJ has been working on a project in North Carolina all summer and hopefully will be wrapping it up and back to the ship soon. He has been back a few times and this trip we made excellent progress with some very heavy lifting. 
We removed the 400 lb granite top table that was on the back deck and this made room for the tools that have been stored in the utility trailer.

We are really liking that knuckle boom crane! I mean, really really liking. Our backs are liking it as well.

Bandsaw base and motor

A large router table

Joiner and base

Table saw and base

Bandsaw

Our back deck now looks like a workshop like the rest of the boat!

The granite table which was sold to a new home.

Penny was enjoying the empty space with the table gone but that didn't last long!

Didn't take long to put things to work. 
Ripping guides for a new pocket door.

Thanks to Gary Blanton for the donation of the dado set and some extra blades. Didn't take long to put them to work!

The start of the pocket door leading into the shop. Space is very narrow through here so a normal hinged door would impinge on the little space there is.

Progress Update: Oct. 9th

The first wood shop storage cabinets are painted and ready for use. Amazing what can be accomplished with scrap wood from other projects!

Eric has taken a break from building cabinets to complete some other projects. The forward head walls have been prepped and primed and the first primer coat is on the shower stall. The primer has to set a week before we can paint in order for it to cure properly and accept the epoxy paint we will top coat with. There is one section or wall to be cut out and replaced to improve the way storage is utilized. It sure looks and smells much better in there now!

Next he will be building a sliding door for the work shop and then go back to cabinets. The section next to the doorway to the shop has been partially torn out, sanded and painted with Kilz. The door will slide along the wall in this area. The rest will be rebuilt into storage cubbies.

 The last of the scrap plywood cabinets built. More to follow!

Eric prepping the forward head walls.

 Getting ready to prime the shower

 

Shower (before)

 Shower (primer coat)

A really nasty grinding prep and sanding job!

This is the area that held the A/C for the lower cabins, head and laundry room. We have changed the AC unit locations.

The sliding door will be built here.

Primer coat

 

 Lots of fresh cut cleat stock for the

next round of work shop cabinets.