Cabin book shelf and more …| New completed (Do that in Fiji) Projects of new year 2014

Do it yourself Cabin book shelf

Luksana has more cookbooks than I have Navigation books for the South Pacific! So instead of them being deadly flying objects as sea I created their own home. Well for half of them at least:-)

Another pain was all the dvds and cps that filled up space and you could never find them so this was rack number 2

Bookshelf in the fore cabin to fill a space not utilized

May look a bit agricultural, but they are strong and will not shift!

Galley : Do it yourself plate shelf

Had to be done. Luksana could not fit a fraction of her chef stuff so I built this gem. Now if I could only fit another 3!

Of course within a day it was covered in hooks to hang other must have stuff

At last some sense and order. Everything in its place and a place for everything is the silos mantra

Rough and ready. An off cut, maybe but it works and frees up space for “essential ” other stuff

Figuring out how to use a router and I discovered I had made a wine glass holder:-)

Come on not bad. scrap wood and it works!

Front cabin

• Cabin stowage net before that doesn’t work so we build an extra wood to store clothes. Now it is work. 

Seemed like a good idea but it was a mess. The knotted buggy cord just sagged down when we put cloths in.

After I built a simple shelf below the existing one. The Admiral is a happy camper:-)

My Daughter and son in law have an antique store in rupert and below is storage and work shop. O the joy of having tools that can cut wood straight and the bench is not wowing as you work. It was amazing that I only had to make every part 2 to 3 times to make them fit:-)

Someone did not like the colour so someone else had to clean it and redo it. Then she changed her mind! It stayed dark!!!!

Chop saws and table saws and vices I can highly recommend amazing inventions.

Dear Readers and friends,

Our blog is updating again for the first post of 2014. In past December the weather out here was rain and continued with winter storms now January is very bad and the harbour very rough with the boat bouncing like in the Ocean.  We are feeling more delight to see a little bit of longer daylight each day.  Although we have few sunshine days of each month but the happy people said we should grateful where we live. We have come to enjoy our less stressful lifestyle here. We have done jobs for the main cabin, galley and fore cabin. We made furnishings  for the empty walls so that it is more useful for cruising.  Stephen bought  pieces  of fir wood to cut and make shelfs to install in some space, for keeping books and dishes also cloths in easy to reach places . We had to be careful in their placement so that they did not get in the way of seating and sleeping.

December last year we had one job done. It was a challenge to build useful things  with no experience  before. We often get the knowledge from the internet. Stephen bought some fir wood and it would have been much more difficult without a wood cutter machines. Or we must use the jig saw to cut the wood. We use the work shop from the Argosy shop to finish this wood work. That would be very difficult to do it all in boat cabin while outside had rain with humidity 100% everyday in that two weeks periods. Before I was interested to use the cedar wood because the wood smell so good and it is from B.C. forest.  But impossible since the only wood available was rough cut, for home construction, the surface of cedar wood is not smooth for this furnish job. The colour of vanish is something that we can make a mistake and we did it and sometime must re-do it again.  After these shelf were installed we can feel it is more easy to find things.

P.S. When she says, we she means me 🙂 Steph

‘Mae’ shown me how to hold Pacific coast Dangeness crab by grab the last two legs….quite easy.

One happy camper

Luksana means dogs are close

Wish she smiled as much at me as she did at these 2 fellas.

The share holder…I can calculate these two Dangeness can be cost 50 Canadian dollars if you dine out in some restaurants here.