Yesterday was Boat Building Thursday again. Last week we rubbed down and insulated the hull wall section of the Captain's Cabin galley. Yesterday we built a frame out of battens, and cut plywood to size and screwed it on. I was master of the Festool saw. I had another day of "who'd've thought that all that woodwork last year would mean that I am actually quite good at this?". It was all pretty exciting and great to be aching at the end of a day of physical work. This wall is going to house a worktop with tea and coffee making space so that we don't have to go over to the main boat during our working day so much. I will also be building a planchest below the worktop to store all my paintings and large sheets of watercolour paper. I can't wait to have it sorted out as my artwork has been festering in a big cardboard box since we moved onto the boat a couple of years ago. I'm not especially precious about my paintings when they are done, but it would be nice to know they are safe. I'd love to have a salvaged hardwood planchest but they are just so expensive. Maybe one day.
Once we've clad the walls and ceiling and put down a floor in there, I'll be getting the sander out again and putting some more hours into sanding the scaffolding plank floor-to-ceiling shelves so that we can have the most amazing work-space storage. They will house all of our art-books, and the artmaterials that I don't use very often.
