Finished up the galley cabs with the most complicated part of this project, the dreaded overhead cabinets… These were difficult because of the overhead that they attach to which has not only a compound camber, but also rises in elevation going forwar…
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Finishing Galley Cabs, Starting on Aft Deck
Finished up the galley cabs with the most complicated part of this project, the dreaded overhead cabinets… These were difficult because of the overhead that they attach to which has not only a compound camber, but also rises in elevation going forwar…
Labor Day weekend
Well, I spent my Labor Day weekend doing a lot of labor on the boat. After spending most of last weekend installing the hydraulic steering pump for the auto pilot (got to do this job twice because of some initial bad info from the manufacturer regardin…
plumbing and more lighting
After a lot of planning and measuring (see first pic), we ordered our galley cabinets. With the timeline that we’re on, it just didn’t pencil out for us to set up shop and start building cabinets, face frames, and doors so we ordered the basic galley c…
Forepeak
Here’s some pics of the rough finish out in the forepeak. This area will be used for storage so we are just going with exterior BC ply panelling, sanded and painted. Under the ply is the standard armacell/mineral wool sandwich which, while a lot of wor…
Mocking up the galley
Last weekend we worked on the galley mock-up and now have the layout pretty much figured out and appliances located. The blank spaces under the temporary counter top will be filled in with base cabinets. For the uppers, we ended up making the test layo…
Three years
Its been three years (as of July 22) since we officially began construction. While we spent a lot of time leading up to July 22, 2009 planning and preparing for this project, this was the date that the steel arrived so I’ll call that our anniversary da…
Time to prioritize
It’s looking like our current vessel (Seabird) will be sold at the end of July leaving us without a permanent home until we get the new boat finished and launched. With that in mind we have set a target of early October to have Kama Hele in the water. …
Quick update…
Lots of different projects going right now . Heres a quick update… Did some surgery on the wheelhouse console to add room for bilge pump switches below the main distribution panel. Just couldn’t find another good place for these so, out came the jigs…
More exhaust, plumbing work, interior framing… and an eclipse
Another busy couple of weeks have flown by so I’ll do a quick catch up. Dave continues to assist with plumbing and whatever else we are up to on the weekends. Currently the big push plumbing-wise is to get all the 1 1/2″ ABS pipe run for black wat…
