VIPs and A New Roller Furling

Our vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) arrived!  So Mike continued to run lines, cut teak, and frame the space for the refrigerator and the stove. 

Framing the cabinets

Then the VIPs were installed:

Insulation panels installed

and the final framing completed (there will be a narrow vertical cabinet between the two). 

Mikey does such good work!

We are waiting on some connectors for the refrigeration lines, and we need to have the stove liner made.  Then it will all come together.  The floor still needs to be replaced and we have to cut new formica and re-install the cabinets with sliding doors, but we won't have to keep toting a cooler every time we head to work on the boat!

Because we don't finish one project before starting another one (gotta keep working on it!), we installed our new roller furling today.  Well, we got it assembled and affixed to the mast and the bowsprit.  We'll go back tomorrow to finish installing the drum and the furling line.  The furler was built on the dock and then hauled up by a halyard with Mike up the mast and Jenny and a few neighbors at the marina (thanks Phil, Jody, and Billy!) helping us raise the furler.  It's secured, but saggy (shows up white in this picture):

Saggy roller furling