Norrsken. Pentry finished
We are back from Far North.
While Stockholm winter this year is a joke - up there, in Abisko and Kiruna, weather was serious indeed: lots of snow, minus 15 C and snow storms almost every evening.
We managed anyhow to see spectacular northern lights - standing in the middle of frozen lake, surrounded by mountains, snow and silence. Three evenings in a row!
Back home, after 17 hours in a night train, I needed a day to have some rest but today I went to boatyard to finish pentry renovation.
All pieces were already prepared and varnished several times. I started with covering the whole cavity with my home-made beeswax-turpentine-Ettan paste, to seal it from moisture.
Next came all plates, screwed to the cavity with bronze screws. New closing board was mounted on brass piano hinge.
Albert was right - mahogany finish looks good!
Closing board was meant to be hanged on chain, to form auxiliary working surface. After mounting it and dry fitting I changed my mind and kept it without chains: it was too small to have any meaning and hanging on chains added unnecessary clutter.
I prefer it simple.
At the back wall I mounted hooks for coffee mugs - always handy when close to the kitchenette.
Kardan hangers are ready for Origo kitchenette to be mounted.
Covering board is kept closed with two spring-ball catches.
It took me a while to adjust them so that they keep the board steady and enable closing it - metal file came in handy when I missed 1mm in alignment.
In the end the pentry is finished!
I moved to less spectacular task of finishing wooden plugs which were glued few weeks ago - on cockpit hatch and bench.
As a last thing this evening I started cutting thick plywood which will be main member of table support.
One has to use what one has at hand - these plywood pieces were off-cuts from some other job so I let my “cubismic” imagination do the thing:
This plywood will be reinforced with solid mahogany, to form 3-dimensional support system, resting on 2 sides of half-bulkhead in the cabin. Table will be hanged on top of that.