Small Projects

I've been working on a few small things the last few weeks.

First up, storage!

I pilfered a nice little 13x15 plastic hatch from the going-out-of-business sale at Boater's World.  It was one of the few items that was truly 40% off.

I wanted to put the hatch in the bulkhead behind and above the porta-potty so that I can have easy access to storage in the back (starboard) corner of the aft berth.  The box comes with a handy pattern, seen taped up below:

The hole was then cut, as seen below:

Looks pretty good, eh?

The wood behind the porta-potty was installed last spring, but has gone unfinished since.  I decided that now was the time to put on some Cetol; the pattern came off, the Cetol went on.

Here's the hatch after it's installed:

I'll put some sort of a box on the other side to keep things in.

What kind of things?

I have no idea.  That's not important right now.  Quit getting ahead of me.

The other little project I've been working on is below:

I stopped by a thrift store in Portland and found that little wooden tray in the center of the picture for $0.98.  It was unfinished, so I took it down to the boat, smeared on a couple coats of Cetol and hung it up in the galley.  I'm keeping general small galley-type things in there, things like salt, pepper, hand sanitizer, etc.

I think it looks pretty good.  I need to go back to the thrift store and find more good stuff.