Tag: Galley
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Avoiding small annoyances.
Sometimes really small issues get annoyingly large. Like this one: The drawers in my galley have locks that are pretty good. But sometimes when we are in choppy seas on the port tack there is too much weight sitting on the locks and they snap open from the force and vibrations. Not a big problem.…
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Handles on a rainy day
Another day with 150m cloud base and a drizzle. Good day for working in the galley. One small issue has been the opening of drawers when heeled over on a starboard tack. If the drawer is full of stuff it is to heavy to lift in the small locking knob. So now I have added…
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Necessities of life
I am continuing my quest to make a boat that “takes care of the crew instead of having the crew take care of the boat”. Unfortunately I can’t make the boat do the dishes. But I can at least try to improve the situation a bit for the crew member who does them. Most yachts…
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Fridge and Freezer, pro style.
I know the list is long, but another thing that annoys me on many yachts is the fridge/freezers. An ordinary cupboard style fridge is very difficult to deal with when the boat is heeling, you open the door and everything falls out… Sometimes designers replace this with a box opening at the top, but since…
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Rudders sink
Rudders are in. They fit nicely… almost. Some small mod may be needed due to the bottom shape being a bit deformed. As you can see the team ended up building a ramp instead of digging a hole for the rudder mounting. The first interior module has also been fixed in place, the famous galley…
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Doing dishes or makeup?
Dig this sink. I have been working on it for a long time. Today it arrived with enough shine to be used as a mirror as well as as a sink. The thing is, kitchen sinks in sailboats at sea never work. The whole concept of a hole in the middle breaks down when the…
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Some things fit through the door, some don’t.
Actually the parameter that determined the width of the deck house door was exactly this one: The engine. I wanted to be able to take it completely out for repairs if that should become necessary (actually there are quite a few boats around that don’t allow this!!). So getting the engine in was fine. We…