Cabin Work
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010While trying to keep Cinnamon seaworthy so we could sail her the last month, we have been working on sprucing up the cabin a bit. The original owners had done fantastic work building the cabin and decks, but had never finished her out completely. Some of the owners since have done various projects with varying levels of craftsmanships.
The end of January we decided to start a major re-do of the cabin. We removed the cushions, bedding and extra cloths we keep at the boat to minimize the clutter while we worked.
The sole was just plywood painted pink and green. Some of the cabinet work left something to be desired.
The next phase was tearing out the old nav table, seat and shelves that the previous owner had built on the port side of the cabin. This consisted of a kludged together collection of fir 1×2 and mismatched plywood like you would buy at Home Depot. It was 2 large dock carts worth of debris that I hauled up to the dumpster. Once the tear out was done it gave us a blank canvas to work with.
I went to Crosscut Hardwoods here in Portland and purchased 3 sheets of marine grade mahogany plywood, a sheet of teak and holly
veneer plywood and some teak to use as cabinet faces and trim. My green house at home was transformed into a finishing shop. I cut all the piece and assembled them, then put 4 coats of satin polyurethane on the cabinet faces and 2 coats on the carcasses. On the teak and holly for the sole I put on 2 coats of West System Epoxy and then 4 coats satin polyurethane. We are very happy with the new look of the cabin.
