The Saloon
Drawers Replacing Top-Opening Storage Hatches
Filler hoses, and wiring before being moved to give maximum depth to the drawers. Peter is struggling to shift things inside the tool drawer.
Small cable clamps made from 2mm aluminium flat bar hold all the cables and hoses where they are clear of the drawers
The drawers were made to maximise their volume, and two small top opening spaces left over the ring frames. the settee base was made with light weight cedar framing rebated to take 6mm plywood hatches. This makes the base flat and so the velcro cushion attachments are more secure.
Bookcase
The rough bookcase shelves are dry fitted together. The side rails, however are mortised with “fantail” wedged joints into the stiles. Once driven together these joints can’t be separated so they are glued together without the trial fit. While this technique has perhaps been made redundant with the use of modern adhesives, it never the less makes joints that will never open up, and is not much more time consuming than straight mortises.
Banu uses a router to bull nose the rail/stile panels.
After the panels are routed the corners are chiseled square. Ideally Peter should have Miter cut and rebated the rails into the stiles so the joint line would be continuous with the bull nose but he was a bit lazy!
The sides were made different widths so the shelves would encircle the mast compression post and the top of the bookcase scribed to fit tightly to the deck head.