Day 112, 11/03,11/6, Little interior work 2+2 hours hours total, Garage hours - make new main cabin tabletop.

New marina configuration.

Sport exercise after work on the week day.

As you remember from previous post, marina moved docks and My boat transom appeared too colse to shore to get out and in to the slip. I agreed with marina owner to swap slips between my boat and one across the the walk path.

Boats swapped one day on the week.

Thing I was nervous a lot went VERY easy. The challenge was turn Vira in very small space and go backward all way through narrow water (on right) out of docks and return back to marina and tie to office dock. This part went easy. I worried about propeller walk but it was not so bad how people talked.

Next step was to move neighbor's boat in place where was Vira. And we had to "walk" her over all dock using mooring hooks. It was an exercise, physically. Was about 600 ft and boat did not want to go straight :-). A couple of times we got too far away from boats and had to "fish tailing" with rudder to get back to boats. About an hour stunning and we get both boats to their new docks.

Interior

Just did second layer of paint on ceiling slope in front cabin.

Not a lot of work this weekend, due to family commitments and absence of electricity on the docks.

Main cabin table.

Refreshing memory: Irwin 34 has a dinner table on the port side of the main cabin. What I have got, was just 40 years old plywood table with teak imitation formica (plastic) laminate. Chipped in several places, scratched over whole surface, and looks just ugly. A specially after I installed teak butcher block galley countertop. Contrast between real wood and fake wood is too big to leave it on place. Also original table top did not have any stoppers to prevent things from sliding out.

Old table condition:

From one hand I have ugly table, from another I have leftovers of superior teak countertop.

Only problem - I have no solid piece big enough to use it as is and it is really thick (1-1/2 inch) and heavy for the table.

Short story - I decided to slice a piece of countertop on two ~5/8" boards and connect them to have enough big tabletop for the table.

What I did?

I cut piece of countertop on 5" wide boards 5x(length)x 1-1/2 inch. Then sliced then on table saw in half for two boards 5x(length) x 5/8 inch.

Then I glued 5/8 in one panel. I DID IT FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE!

After panel was made I routed it to the size and shape of the original table.

Added 3/4 plywood backer from the bottom for stability and to provide better support for the mounting. Used thickened epoxy to make robust bonding.

Next, added an 1nch wide planks on the perimeter from the bottom to make it appearance ~1 inch thickness and also add some stability to construction. and