Gravy Boat, Custom Albin 25

Yeah, but we wanna see the GOLD !!!!!!!!!

 

What do YOU call the color of "GRAVY'S" bottom?

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Hey, thanks. That clears it up nicely.

 

Took this picture this morning.
Last night, didn't trust the fresh fiberglass connecting leg to half bulkhead.
Those hatch covers using for leaves are NOT insubstantial!
Leg could bear the weight this morning

Now perhaps you can see how the forward leaf is equivalent to a gate to enter and leave wife's EZ chair.
I HAD the table top all assembled but using the parts in a different configuration now.




In SPACE (cold and dark where no man has gone B4) no wait, reboot brain.
AREA formerly devoted to a vee berth, seems I'm getting a lot of furniture installed in the same space!
The TODD chair was a gift. Has snaps for upholstery that was worn out.
Original owner bought two NEW TODDs for less than new upholstery would cost. Gave an old chair to me and one to another friend.
I don't need upholstery.
The chair goes in this location.
It lifts off its post, and can be turned 180 degrees to face counter.
It swivels and slides front and rear adjustment, like a car seat.
Simpler just to lift off, reverse, and reset on post facing other direction.
With chair facing counter top, there is plenty of room to pass between chair and wife's table.
You can see the recliner tub slightly forward ( toward bow, back in photo) of wife's EZ chair, a good position for giving a neck massage to someone in the EZ chair.
I plan to give and receive. .
The cut out in the tub allows easier access and PREVENTS completely filling that deep tub with water, that might be too much weight!
The old head was where the tunnel berth settee is, and old galley opposite.
The table angles in front of someone sitting on the settee, like a 1950's style school desk, so three can eat at the table together.

Where the tub, EZ chair, Todd chair, counter, and table, formerly just a pair of vee berths.
Should I rip out and reinstall original V-berth arrangement?

 

I think it is camel.

 

Double hump a rollin donut, Hoyt.
'GRAVY's bottom is GOLD, not camel. Principle of like attracts like. Birds of a feather...
But first, would you ask your wife, for a woman's perspective on the arrangement?
My wife won't see it before it's cast in concrete (manner of speaking).
Your wife has excellent taste.
Except maybe in choice of husband?
(just joking. You're a lovely couple I cherish as friends.)

 

Today, started re-installing cockpit.
All the big pieces are now in the salon.
Don't need the cargo hatch function of the removable cockpit, since moving in the furniture is complete. I think.
The cockpit will make my and others entering and departure much easier.

 

Mrs. says make sure her seating has good lighting set for comfortable reading. Good dry clothing storage is essential, even vacuum bagging might be desirable. Make sure there is a nook where she can store HER personal items and get at them easily. Otherwise she has no criticisms.

 

Thanks Mrs Hoyt and Hoyt.

Far be it from me to resent having to undo the cockpit again, to install a blessing, something I only thought I'd like to try, about two days ago.

Was recently thinking, Peltier chips, of which I have about half dozen, get cold on one side and hot on the other when supplied with 12 volts.
Raise a blister hot, if you were silly enough to touch it!

I was wondering if a small ammonia fridge, normally run off LP gas or kerosene flame, could be run off the HOT side of the Peltier chip simultaneously while the COLD side of the Peltier chip was helping cool inside the fridge?

May be better efficiency and economy using 12 volts for refrigeration. If it works?

Thought, sure like to test the idea, but didn't mention it to anyone.

Anyway, this just showed up.
Fella said nothing wrong with it, just he bought a more modern fridge, and would I like this one?
Too dark to get a good picture.



It's a Dometic amonia fridge! OMG! THANKS!

 

Now I got to find a new wet locker space, cause the fridge will fit perfectly where I intended the wet locker!

Maybe a wet locker in the wheelhouse?

 

Is this boat 25 feet or 25 metres ? It is going to be that filled with stuff it will make a sardine tin seem roomy !

 

Open space is room to be thrown across in a small vessel.
Just a bit cluttered with things to grab and places to sit, is preferable IMO.
While 'GRAVY' may be only 25 feet long and 8.5 feet beam, why shouldn't it be the BIGGEST 25 feet it can possibly be?
This just the forward cabin!
Wait till I show you the enormous cockpit?
and the "piece de resistance" the aft sleeping cabin with the private composting head/sauna (solar powered)!
And the 'walk-in' closet!
Okay, not walk-in, but BIG hanging locker!
Reading corner!
And the galley....will startle you! it's on a different level! And NOT in the wheelhouse, or cockpit.
Though I prefer most cooking be done in the cockpit, sometimes, weather requires an inside galley.
The galley is in the salon, a different level of the salon, and I've been careful it wasn't shown in any pictures, yet.

 

Camel or caramel, imo.

 

One further consideration, besides being trailer-able, I required any boat I purchased be LESS than 26 feet.
26 feet and longer have MANY more regulations than under 26 feet.
Which is why I removed the canoe stern I added on to 'Intrepidos', after I regained my senses and remembered I didn't WANT a 30 footer or anything longer than 25 ft.

You aren't even required a head on a 25 footer!

 

Well, you demanded to see gold.
And refuse to see it when I present it. Oh well!
Actual name of paint color, is "Sundowner Buff".
I'm not so anxious to go gold hunting. When the time and other factors are right, I'll enjoy it..
The building project is enough diversion for me at this particular stage of my life.
I'm having FUN! Itchy fun, (scratch, scratch) but fun!