Galley Stoves

Some pictures of my galley stoves. There is a Camp Chef two burner stove with a small oven, which can run on disposable propane cylinders or I have a converter hose to go to a 20 lb tank under one of the cockpit seats.

I put a space under the Camp Chef for a drawer, which will bring the height up to be flush with the counter top.

You can see the side of my protective bar, made from a pulpit from an old sailboat, and bent to shape. I was paranoid about stumbling into a hot stove when a rogue wave hit.  

 Here is the Hobbit Stove showing the door open and the protective cage

And here it is as seen from the dinette, i angled the stove so I can watch the flame while relaxing in the saloon.

July long weekend update, windows and masts

Here is my update for the July long weekend, 2016

 I made an armrest for the forward end of the settee, out of a cutoff from the bow curve stringers. There is a removable pole with nice curves at the top and bottom, with a spot to hold up the armrest. I have to go and get some barrel bolts similar to the other side to hold it in position.

The shape is so I have a little table to hold my coffee while lounging on the settee

 Right now I have a piece of wood propping it up in the right position, there will be a hinge so it can be folded up out of the way. I will figure out a way to tie it in the upright position, so it doesn't fall and bang me in the head one day,

next photo is the shelves inside the settee leanback, and (not shown) one of the access holes was cut in the seatback.

 As I mentioned in a previous post, getting appropriate wood for a mast in the prairies is a challenge. I could have gotten a cutting permit, roped in a buddy, drove a few hours west, spent the day cutting down a suitable tree, and hauling it back. Instead, the guy just down the road from me brings in big truckloads of wood, which he cuts up and sells by the bag to people going to the nearby lakes. I had him separate 3 likely looking ones from the pile, and I bought them and brought them home this weekend. One other bonus, he is close enough that I drove my tractor over, so we could use the hydraulic front end loader to do the heavy lifting. I bought 3 in case there is a flaw in one of them that only reveals itself once the bark is off and the wood is dried. The least desirable one will become firewood. 

 I will have to make up some new sawhorses to do the de-barking on, Peter Hooper from his Trilobuild face book page recommended  higher than normal ones. I hope that my trees are suitable to turn into masts, as per Dave Zieger's blog post http://triloboats.blogspot.ca/2012/03/masts-as-if-they-grew-on-trees.html

The other bit of progress is the windows. Here is the set by the dinette, each window is just under 18" square. The order of assembly will be, from the outside in, exterior trim, an 18x72" piece of Plexiglas, bedding compound, the 1/2" exterior skin, then a window frame ( which is visible in the photo of the shelves above) cut from a 1/2 thick plywood, glued to the inside of the exterior skin to strengthen the ribs. Inside of this is a second piece of Plexiglas and a final 1/2 frame , screwed together so that the Plexiglas can be replaced when scratched up. I am using the term "Plexiglas" here generically, as I will actually be using whatever brand that my local lumberyard carries. I left the cedar around the window exposed, and will coat it with a clear finish, maybe Prizim as recommended by Dave, if the cost to get it here is reasonable.
 Don't pay any attention to the mess visible through the window, once I launch that will no longer be in sight.

More table details, June 5 2016

Here are some more details on the table top

 Here is the support mounted on the wall

Table installed

Close up of support with table inserted. I wanted the small storage area with fiddles to hold water glasses,,salt and pepper, and other stuff that is handy to have at the table. The other point is that it pushes the table a bit out into the aisle, so it looks right on the leg (if flush to the wall, the leg would stick out past the edge of the table)

Saloon puzzle

Here is the completed picture of the saloon with the settee pulled in and the dinette folded down. After I took this picture I rounded some corners. Still to come is the lean back storage, and of course the walls and windows.

And here is a detail of the table leg in the down position, with the added plywood bits

 And here is the same leg in the upright position

Hopefully I have the photo editing figured out, and you can make sense of what I was trying to do here

Pole and leg details





Sorry about formatting, I am having trouble with Blogger today

Table leg



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



Base of table leg

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