Project by ChesapeakeBob | posted 11-03-2009 02:19 AM | 7798 views | 1 time favorited | 16 comments | ![]() |
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This is a cabinet built for the specific need of creating more galley space on our boat. The dimensions and shelf locations were set to hold specific sized containers. I epoxied the corners with reinforcing blocks with thickened West System Epoxy. To assure that the food will stay put when underway, I added the very small bungee cords stretched across the front of the upper shelves. Attaching the cabinet required special anchors known as threaded rivets, which I purchased along with the tool to set them from McMaster Carr. (Any project that does not require the purchase of a new tool is not worth doing.) These rivets are essentially set like a pop rivet, only when you relase the installation tool, you have a female machine thread, in this case a 10-32 thread. Ten of these fasteners hold the cabinet to a fiberglass bulkhead that is hollow behind it. The finish is simply lemon oil rubbed over the teak cabinet.
-- Chesapeake Bob, Southern Maryland
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Dan Hux
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#1 posted 11-03-2009 02:33 AM
very smart work..I don’t own a boat, but I’m sure if I did and decided to poke some sorta hole in it,, it would be some special place where the Atlantic ocean will rush right in. nice cabinet…
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a1Jim
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#2 posted 11-03-2009 02:47 AM
Good job Bob looks cool.
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ChesapeakeBob
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#3 posted 11-03-2009 03:19 AM
Socal… I had enough “scrap” teak in my workshop so that my only expense were the rivets and the rivet tool from McMaster-Carr, which is a fantastic company to due business with.
-- Chesapeake Bob, Southern Maryland
woodworm
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#4 posted 11-03-2009 03:48 AM
Excellent work!
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Pete_Jud
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#5 posted 11-03-2009 04:39 AM
Bob, what kind of sailboat is that on? I have a Baba 40 here on Pudjet Sound.
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CaptainSkully
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#6 posted 11-03-2009 05:11 AM
Looks factory to me. I second Pete’s question (BTW, Bob Perry’s Baba 40’s rock!). We have friends with boats in Shilshole. Can’t go wrong with West Systems…
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Loucarb
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#7 posted 11-03-2009 12:31 PM
Well done.
ChesapeakeBob
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#8 posted 11-03-2009 05:11 PM
Pete Jud… My wife and I sail a Cape Dory 30, hull #335 on the Chesapeake Bay.
Thanks!
Chesapeake Bob
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ohwoodeye
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#9 posted 11-03-2009 09:01 PM
I don’t own a boat. But if I did, I don’t think I would eat “Chunky” soup and beans while sailing.
Very nice cabinet however.
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ChesapeakeBob
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#10 posted 11-03-2009 09:15 PM
Woodeye, It sounds like you have never been on the anchor, at anchor, on a cold, wet afternoon or evening. Nothing will warm you like a good bowl of soup!
-- Chesapeake Bob, Southern Maryland
marksalot2005
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#11 posted 11-08-2009 07:49 PM
Very beautiful cabinet, ATTA BOY AAAAA ++++++
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ChesapeakeBob
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#12 posted 11-09-2009 02:17 AM
Socal, no secrets here. The door came from West Marine. I could not make it for what their price was. My wife and I designed the cabinet, including the shelf locations. If I had it to do again, I would make a change or two, but who can’t say that about some projects?
Thanks for you inquiry.
CB
-- Chesapeake Bob, Southern Maryland
ChesapeakeBob
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#13 posted 11-09-2009 02:47 AM
Dave R, I would not call it a kit exactly. The door was assembled. I built the case and added the hinges and the catch. Plus figuring-out the corner re-inforcements and the anchoring method was very important! Thank goodness for West System Epoxy and the threaded rivets I discussed previously.
Thanks,
CB
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woodchic
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#14 posted 11-09-2009 04:17 AM
Hi Bob, Nice work.
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ChesapeakeBob
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#15 posted 11-09-2009 11:11 PM
Thanks Woodchic!
CB
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