RandomThoughts on Triloboats, sailboats & Kung Fu: Pole and leg details

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Sorry about formatting, I am having trouble with Blogger today

This post is to show some of the construction details on how I ended up

Building some of the bits and pieces, such as the table leg that will also become a horizontal support when everything is folded down to create a large flat space. An additional piece of plywood about 6" wide will be attached to the upper side of the leg (when it is in the horizontal position)

Table leg horizontal

When a large flat space is desired, the table is lowered, the table leg is put in place across to the settee, the settee is pulled out 9", and the two seat backs are placed between the table and settee.This will give an area thirteen feet long and six and a half wide. the cushions will not cover this area completely, so will probably be stacked off to the side. The surface will match the height of the galley sole, so a 24" wide by twenty foot long area is also possible.

top of pole outboard, with barrel bolt detail

There is a removable pole that holds the inboard forward end of the dinette seat back, cut to hold the seat angle formed with three inches of lean back. the middle of the pole is 1.5 x 1.5 inches, rounded to a nice to grip shape.

Rough cut seat back, still needs rounded edges

Fuzzy picture of pole in place

mortise and tenon

tenon on bottom of pole and matching cutout in the plywood seat bottom. This piece of plywood will be glued down to the seat frame.

top of pole,inboard

I added a bit of wood at the top to center the barrel bolt in the beam

Finally, this under the aft end of the settee, this is where the fans to circulate hot air from above the stove around the bunk to under the dinette will be located. I have not picked up the fans, so no holes are cut yet

7 comments:

YodaApril 12, 2016 at 7:17 PM
Dennis,

Glad to see the progress.

I sense a cool plan at work, but I'm having trouble following it. I'm getting all wrapped up in "X connected to Y", without really understanding what the objective is, or seeing how individual components contribute to the whole.

Seems as though the overall goal is to allow the dinette, companionway (hallway), and settee to be connected by a flat surface, running the full width of the boat. And to do that by using the dinette table top and seat backs as flat surface. Even if so, not sure what the purpose would be.

Can you shed some light on that?

Yoda
Dennis DApril 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM
Yes, or kneeling would be possible too.
Dave ZMay 24, 2016 at 12:24 PM
Hi Dennis,

Very nice work!

I'm wondering, in the horizontal position, could it be turned over for full support across the whole gangway? Would take some fiddling with the landing notches...

I must say, we haven't used the full platform often for projects, but it's come in very handy when a group of guests materializes.

Luggage in the gangway and folks packed like sardines to sleep on the platform (about 2ft each allows roughly 6 to sleep thwartships in the salon/bunk. Two more in the galley and 5 in the cockpit possible... Sleeps 11! 8/

We don't go looking for that, but it's been a fun 'sleep-over' option a handful of times. In an emergency, it would be a real plus.

BTW, you table post solution made me think, at first glance, of a 'tabernacle' for the post... it could hinge just below platform level to provide the thwartships bridge. Hmm... a trick for the 'next boat'. 8)

Dave Z