Spring / Summer 2008

This is the year for the interior. Sorry I am late in getting this progress report out but it is taking a lot more work then I figured. I thought, hey for once it's only carpentry work, piece of cake, cut and fit wood, what could be easier. Dahh... well when there is almost no straight lines in all the work I have to do it is really taking some time.
1. Bulkheads The first thing we had to do was cover all the wood bulkheads with a nice finish. Well, we found some new pastic stuff while in the restroom at Home Depot, and put it on all the bulkheads.
2. Ripping and planing the cedarThe next thing we had to do was was line the ceilings with cedar. In boat speak ceilings are the side of the interior hull.
But alas where the hell do we get all that red cedar. Solution.. Find some old growth cedar logs that were once part of a cottage kit, and rip the hell out of them.
3. V-Berth Ceilings Here are some views of installing the ceilings. Our friends Beth and Elroy Gulingsrude arrived to help. Beth and Gnet made great meals and Elroy and I cut and fitted cedar strips as you can see.
4. Galley Now for the galley. Our friends Elroy and Joan Good, and Doug and Ruth Zimmerman came and helped with the ship. The girls went joy riding but handled meals ok to keep up our energy. Elroy, a master mechanic, fixed up some snags on our Dodge truck , sanded and coated the the rub rail, and hand fit the edges under the portlights in the forward cabin.
Doug and I framed in the galley cabinet up to the fitting the counter top.
5. Fridge Cabinet In order for me to be able to build a cabinet for the fridge, we had to go and buy one. Of course if you mention boat they go up in proce accordingly.
We got it home and with the help of Ted our friend and landlord here, we grunted and growned but we got it into the boat. I then turned it on and have been running it for a few weeks.
But as luck would have it, it is short cycling, which means it runs for 2 minutes, then is off for 4 minutes.Which means it is running 10 times an hour or a full 20minutes.
I called a warranty dealership and they talked to Norcold and made the decision to have it in the shop for tests. Which means... I have to take it out of the ship and haul it to Burlington. Well it needs fixng so what else can I do.
6. Wiring and Under Deck Covering. Sometimes everything seems like a catch 22, you know, need to do this before you can do that, and then need to something else until you get thoroughly lost. So I need to say time out and get the wiring in before I could install the fridge once and for all. So I needed to wire in both the 12 VDC and the AC wiring. I had to be a contorsionist in the bilges to run the wires but this big guy got 'r done. So once the wiring was done I roughed in the outlets so I could get rid of all the extension cords I haev strewn all over the place. O took one look at the crap hanging around I decided to do it up permanently. So browse the pics and you'll see what I did.