Interior Pictures.

Well, its been a while since I posted here... we are still using our old (slow) internet connection on the boat and I just can't seem to find the time to sit down and post pictures. For now, I'm going to try doing the text on our home internet connection and uploading the photos directly from my phone using a blogger app. Winter is still with us, despite the dry weather here on the West Coast, so all of our efforts continue to be on the interior fit-out. I am determined to not live in a construction zone for years and years so most of our weekends are spent working on some aspect of the boat. I've been jumping around a bit, but recent work has included aft cabin cabinets and finish, completing the galley and dinette, and starting on the wheelhouse interior panelling and finish work. What usually drives the to-do list is "what materials am I tired of tripping over? One nice addition to the wheelhouse has been a tank monitoring system for our fresh, gray, and black water tanks. No more lifting hatches to sight the tanks - it's all on a digital read-out with alarms for high and low levels. The tank tender (below the digital gauge ) is for sounding fuel tanks. It uses air pressure to read how many inches of diesel are in each tank. Next to this is a table that converts inches to gallons for each fuel tank. I haven't hooked up the fuel tank end of this system yet but it is very simple in principle. The plywood that we were using for a dinette table was getting pretty gross, so I used some left over black laminate to make a temporary table thats a little easier to keep clean. Eventually I'd like to do some kind of cool inlaid wood top, but this will do for now. Also found some inexpensive patio furniture cushions that will get us by until we build some proper upholstered benches. I kind of like the jungle look. We continue to work on aft cabin and aft head cabinets. The cabinets shown are mostly raw wood still, but will darken up like the galley cabinets once I put some finish on them. Results are starting to show and it's great getting our stuff out of cardboard boxes. Also put in a neat little computer desk which I am sitting at to type this post. Definitely need to upgrade the lawn chair seat soon though. In the wheelhouse, we are using some more of the doug fir T&G for wainscoting. Above this (between the windows) will be painted plywood panels and mahogany trim. Speaking of which, I started ripping down some of the 4x4 and 2x3 pieces of salvage mahogany that I found out in West Marin a couple of years ago. I have no idea how old it is or where it came from originally, but looks like really nice stuff once you remove the grey weathered exterior. extraordinary deep red with lots of swirl and figure to the grain. These pictures don't really do it justice. Once its all ripped and surfaced, this will make nice trim and countertop edging. -PB