Today saw the end of scraping the cupboard doors,locker doors and cabin doors I have presently in my workshop down in Essex. So far just one cabin door is going to need renewing as there are areas of rotten wood in the lower half of the door and it will better to source a good supply of the Mahogany that is as close as it possible to the original wood.
The next job on the doors will be to sand back the surface to original colour and then put a thin coat of varnish on the surfaces to seal the colour of the wood until it is time to varnish the doors ready to refit the door furniture and re-hang the doors in the boat.
That job is now put to one side has I get on with the picnic boat and fitting the fuel tank in the bow and also making the foredeck beam fit into the top of the gunwales and make the new breasthook and then make up the patterns for the quarter knees. Also I will have to make up a aft deck beam like the foredeck beam to lay the new plywood aft deck which in turn will be covered in a thin layer of teak planking. The teak is recycled so no new wood is being used to make the teak covering of the fore and aft decks
So tomorrow it will a matter of getting out the oak after I have finished making the knee patterns and then cutting and planning the oak ready to start fitting the knees into position. Then get some thin strips of mahogany to bend over my deck beam jig and glue them up to make the aft deck beam while working on the rest of the boat refit.
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