Mounting the pedestal guard

This past week Mike mounted the pedestal guardtook out the table saw and made an adapter plate for the pedestal guard, using starboard.  It connects the pedestal with the guard (see the picture).  You can also see that he mounted the housing and the Raymarine multi-function display.  Now there's just enough room to mount our Tack Tick instrument displays!


New Pedestal Guard and Display


He also continued to fiberglass the rest of the refrigerator tub.  The inside is almost done -- just finishing up painting over the joint.  And, he finished replacing the bad decking board (gluing and screwing and plugging and sanding, leaving only caulking to be done).  Then he began building the compartment for the oven using marine plywood.  This needs to be firmly connected to the hull, so he had more fiberglass work to do.  (The sticks are just temporarily holding the board in place.)  You can see where some leftover space will evolve into a skinny cabinet for cookie sheets and cutting boards, can't you?

We also replaced the traveller control lines for the main, seeing as how the existing ones made us a little nervous.  We kept with the "blue" theme for any lines/sheets for the main.

And, we were able to use our sail loft to repair the broken stitches we had found in the sails:




The McDiarmid Sail Loft


We're expecting our vacuum-insulated panels to arrive tomorrow, so guess what will be our focus next?  Well, that AND the roller furling that arrived via UPS.  The driver was glad we were home -- it was hot out and the boxes were heavy.  We wanted to start getting it installed, but it rained on Monday.  However, we did order the conversion kits for the two head sails that we have.