October 2024

 Oct. 10

The weather is getting much nicer and I'm itching to do more work on the boat. Last week I finished the jams for one of the lockers (closets) and mostly finished the other. I completed the putting together doors for both. I'll upload some pictures when I take them. I've also worked out some custom made hardware for the latches.  I'll probably make these out of black walnut to contrast with the white oak.

The drawing on the left is an edge on view of the door with the door jam on the right. The right drawing is looking from the inside (door not shown) with the latch (gray oval) engaged with the jam. I'll probably replace a bit of the jam with HDPE so as not to wear out the wood. The bottom drawing shows that I'm planning to use some bearing material (sleeve) for the stainless steel (SS) bolt. 

My wife took a few good photos that I'd like to share below.

That is yours truly.

Me and my wife hanging out and dreaming.

Now some recent work. I hung the locker doors. I used half pin barrel hinges so if you open the doors up all the way, you can lift them off and get them out of the way. But really, they open flat against the cabinets so I only expect to do this when outfitting the boat for a voyage.

Eight door latches for the design at the top of this page. The only question is: Is eight enough. These are made from some black walnut that I've had for awhile. I always wanted to have black walnut accents to counter the white oak and I think this will be a nice start. These will be nice and shiny when they are clear coated.