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Showing posts with label oak strips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oak strips. Show all posts
December 18, 2014
With the week so disrupted by rain, wind and holiday events, it's a miracle I got anything done at all. I did get a couple of small items finished, including my new double-line anchor snubber. However, as you'll see from the photos, there was a lot of unavoidable jumping around from project to project. But it's all good. While the weather should be benign next week, I'll be flying to Des Moines for Christmas, so it will be a bit of a work holiday.
Best wishes for whatever you're celebrating!
Best wishes for whatever you're celebrating!
December 13, 2012
This week was all about dealing with the exigencies of the weather. Projects had to be planned around intermittent and unpredictable showers, and the dampness and cold resulted in a few new problems to be corrected.
I continued work on the small head in the aft cabin, primarily prepping and painting the fiberglass liner. It's a lot of work, requiring lots of boat yoga to get it done in a cramped space. So far it's sanded, primed and a first coat of polyurethane enamel applied. It will probably take at least two more coats, wet-sanded between each coat, to get it right. I also continued to work on the "vanity" in the aft cabin. Since I got two "thumbs up" on the oak strip surface for the shelf, I did additional work on the oak strips to make sure the final result was a smooth, flat, and durable surface. It's not done yet, but progress was good. Whenever weather allowed, I've been applying coats of Epifanes RapidCoat to a pair of trim pieces that will eventually frame a mirror on the vanity.
So much for the forward progress. In the remedial department, I found that the additional dampness brought on by the cold, rainy weather was enough for the oak strips with which I so carefully lined the aft cabin to expand enough to cause some to buckle and pop off the wall. While each piece might only have expanded 1/100 of an inch or less, when there are 20 or 30 pieces fitted precisely together, the total expansion can approach 1/4 of an inch! So, in several places I had to re-cut, reshape, and refinish a piece to accommodate the expansion. Hopefully when the pieces shrink back in drier weather, the gap between each piece will only be that 1/100 of an inch!
Up in the v-berth where I sleep, there is still no overhead liner or insulation. As a consequence, when it gets really cold, enough condensation forms on the overhead to start dripping. Unacceptable! As a quick temporary fix (until I put in a new insulated overhead), I tacked up some bubble insulation using double-sided foam tape.
Well, two steps forward, one back is better than vice versa....
I continued work on the small head in the aft cabin, primarily prepping and painting the fiberglass liner. It's a lot of work, requiring lots of boat yoga to get it done in a cramped space. So far it's sanded, primed and a first coat of polyurethane enamel applied. It will probably take at least two more coats, wet-sanded between each coat, to get it right. I also continued to work on the "vanity" in the aft cabin. Since I got two "thumbs up" on the oak strip surface for the shelf, I did additional work on the oak strips to make sure the final result was a smooth, flat, and durable surface. It's not done yet, but progress was good. Whenever weather allowed, I've been applying coats of Epifanes RapidCoat to a pair of trim pieces that will eventually frame a mirror on the vanity.
So much for the forward progress. In the remedial department, I found that the additional dampness brought on by the cold, rainy weather was enough for the oak strips with which I so carefully lined the aft cabin to expand enough to cause some to buckle and pop off the wall. While each piece might only have expanded 1/100 of an inch or less, when there are 20 or 30 pieces fitted precisely together, the total expansion can approach 1/4 of an inch! So, in several places I had to re-cut, reshape, and refinish a piece to accommodate the expansion. Hopefully when the pieces shrink back in drier weather, the gap between each piece will only be that 1/100 of an inch!
Up in the v-berth where I sleep, there is still no overhead liner or insulation. As a consequence, when it gets really cold, enough condensation forms on the overhead to start dripping. Unacceptable! As a quick temporary fix (until I put in a new insulated overhead), I tacked up some bubble insulation using double-sided foam tape.
Well, two steps forward, one back is better than vice versa....
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