December 2024

 Dec. 16.

I finally finished up all those drawers for the cabinet under the sink. I had to wait till it was warm enough for epoxy. Temperatures should remain above 40 F (4.44 C) for at least 24 hours, preferably longer. 

The space at the top is for the double sink that is planned. I may add a small pop-out storage there. I'll have to see what kind of room I have when the sink is installed.

I decided to add more drawers on the side instead of having excessively long drawers in the front. The top drawer is only as long as the front one is wide to leave room for the sink.

The wall on the right is complete. It is only temporarily in place. I'll epoxy it together when I have time and temperature. The end of the wall pillar (black walnut) is attached to the floor using a hanger bolt. A hanger bolt has a wood screw end that is screwed into the pillar and a bolt end that is attached with a nut under the floor.

I've also finished the spacers between the rafters. I think this finished it off quite nicely. 

A close up of the top spacer and the wall pillar. The black walnut pillar will be trimmed at the ceiling. 

The next big step is fabricating and installing the sliding door for the port cabin. It will slide along the wall just installed and close the area off.

End of December:

My nephew forgot to bring the parts I needed for the sliding door. They were purchased in Chattanooga where he lives about a 2.5 hour drive away. Oh well. I decided to put in the dead wood that the ceiling will attach to. Every rafter will have to have a spacer all the way around to screw up ceiling bead board. It is very time consuming. At least now I know what to do with those really warped 5/4" boards I keep coming across.

This kind of board is only useful for building boats. That curve is just what I need for the following work.

All those curved rafters are getting dead wood to screw the ceiling onto.

A close up showing the 1"x5/8" wood strip. There will be a 1" space between the ceiling bead board and the decking. I plan to fill that space with 1" closed cell foam board. This should keep the boat cooler in direct sunlight.

Another view showing both sides of the rafters with the strips of wood. It is a lot of work. 

To complete this work, I also was finally forced to secure all the interfaces between the walls and the ceiling... or rather work out what I was going to do. Next, I will have to add some strips along the perimeter of the cabin roof. These will have to be beveled to match the cabin roof-side wall angle. All of them will be short (between rafter beams) so I'm going to go through all my scrap wood. Actually, I'm running out of oak again but I think there is enough to finish everything. I really don't have a lot more to build with the white oak.