OK, really what I did on Sunday, not "today." Installed a chart rack that David made on the ceiling over the helm seat. It is nifty, probably not good for real tall people, though...Used Gorilla Glue and wedged 'er up there with a board and my boat hook. Actually two boat hooks would have been the best way to do this, because they are adjustable length. Other project, bigger one, was to build and install a floor to level up the area under the galley. Used the wood that grows on plastic trees (NeverRot) from Home Depot. First I glued a 31" long piece of 5/8" square stuff to the back side of the galley cabinet below the door opening, so when the floor goes in, the top of the floor is flush with the top of the opening for the doors (i.e., floor is flush with the bottom of the doors). The doors are 15½" wide each, so you can deduce where the 31" length came from. The distance from the edge of the cabinet to the hull at this height is 21½", and the angle of the hull at that height is about 35° (you can see I am already in way over my head here...) I then determined that my rusty old table saw still worked, and cut five 6" plastic boards (actually 5½") to 21½", and one 6" and one 4" (actually 3½") to 17½". You can see that 5 X 5½ plus 3½ by good luck adds up to 31"...I then beveled the back end of each board to 35°, and edge glued the boards together with the short pieces in the middle. This gave me a 4" by 9" opening at the front, so I can stick small stuff down under the floor. I had some trouble figuring out the edge gluing and bar clamping (hint: the work pieces need to be supported on something absolutely FLAT, a fact I did not appreciate until it had buckled six times and I had glue oozing all over everywhere). Anyway, it stuck if not perfect in appearance. To my amazement it fit just great. I am not fastening it down so it will lift right out, so I need something to cushion the boards against the inside of the hull so they don't start wearing through the fiberglass (which would be bad), probably some closed cell foam rubber (if anybody has a better idea, I would like to hear it). But it wedges down tightly enough that I am not too worried, and with a little foam rubber, I don't think it will be moving much if at all. So we now have a level floor, and some new plastic drawers that sit level and stay put instead of trying to continually open the doors from the inside like the stacked plastic bins used to do. The clearance from floor to bottom of the Wallas is about 20", which still would handle the three sets of three stacked plastic bins that we used to use. We just went to the plastic drawers because it is nicer to slide the drawer out than to have to arrange and rearrange bins every time you want to get something out. Anyway, will snap some pix and put them up, maybe this evening. I am really happy with the way it turned out.
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I still have those carpet patterns, we'll get down to you somehow.
I've been laid up with a broken wrist. :crook I fell while working on 'my other boat'(44' trimaran) and broke up some bones in my left wrist. The surgeon spent two hours putting it back together a week ago with 'plates, screws,& pins'. Since then, I've been taking lots of pain pills and groaning a lot. I am learning how to type with one hand. :lol: