ONE COMPLETION BUT LOTS TO GO

Pinoyu Boat Yard
Port Carmen, Cebu Philippines

Two weeks since my last update and one more project completed, well almost. You last saw the beginnings of the cut out for the making better use of the area under the navigation seat area.
 

HERE WE SEE THE WASTED SPACE BEHIND THE DRAWERS

DRAWERS REMOVED LOCKER PAINTED AND NEW SMALL CUBBIES FOR SOME TOOLS

THE OLD DRAWER FACES WILL BE HINGED TO COVER THESE CUBBIES
I AM WAITING FOR THE ORDERED HINGES TO BE DELIVERED

The next major undertaking is in our aft cabin. Here there has been a ladder up and into the cockpit, our plan has been to remove the ladder and replace it with a storage cabinet that will also act as a ladder to go from the cabin up into the cockpit. We seldom use this ladder but feel it provides necessary access up and down. The following show the work in progress by one of the carpenters here in Pinoy boat Yard

THE OLD LADDER

SPACE TO BE USED

A PLAN

ESMER, OUR CARPENTER

FIRST TWO TABLE SAW CUTS THEN THE PLANKS WERE RIPPED BY HAND SAW



HERE IT'S MOSTLY HAND TOOLS



PLANKS GLUED AND READY FOR SANDING

USING MY DRILL TO FASTEN CLEATS

HERE'S THE BASIC'S





So as of the finish of work on Saturday we  have an idea of how things will look. There is stiil quite a bit to figure out. The plan is to have drawer faces on what we see as the large riser faces that will hinge open.

Since we had only a half day of a worker and I also needed a rest from my project of renovating in the v-berth area Kathy and I took a bus trip to the closest of the big shopping malls. I needed to visit the Ace Hardware and it was time to pick up some more groceries. The bus trip in was uneventful and we managed most things on the list. The difficulty came on our attempted return as all the direct buses were full, traffic on an early Saturday evening was terrible. We finally managed to be approached by one of the small local passenger carrying trucks who asked where we needed to go it was way past where he intended to go but a deal was made for 500 pesos and we were on our way. Of course that only got us 90% home. Next it was a peddle tryke to the main tryke teminal and finally a motor tryke home.

WE'VE SEEN AS MANY AS 3 BEHIND THE OPERATOR