prototype galley Box

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I have knocked up a pair of boxes to accommodate the Origo, give me a place to store the cooking equipment and condiments

it is in this film



I need to improve the doors - they need some sort of mechanism for holding them closed and when they drop down

The string is obviously hugely inelegant - but it shows the way I want the hatches to work

I did think of hinges and a side rope to stop it from dropping down but the ply is really thin - any suggestions for what I do in the mark 2

I intend moving the electronics panel away from the cooking and over to where the galley was over the bunk.

I do have gimbles for the Origo

any ideas for making this concept work

how do you store crockery/cutlery on a small boat

the slug had a nice little wrack behind the cooking station

I am planning on having a small washing up bowl that I can use in the cockpit and emptied by upending it over the lee rail... any suggestions for sourcing it

I am basically starting from scratch - the cooking place has to be removable because I need access to the storage space sternwards of the galley

all pics carefully scrutinised


Dylan
 
Making doors out of thin ply is always a pain. Better to have a softwood frame around the front, and make the doors with a softwood lipping of the same thickness, so that you can use some 16 or 19mm screws to mount some decent hinges. Some ball catches along the top edge, or maybe magnets. You can still have ropes to hold the doors horizontal (you can get drop down restraint things but they are made of horrible electroplate rubbish, and rope doesn't go rusty.
I would bet that after the first few days afloat you will end up leaving it all set up and in position, unless you're really really conscientious and tidy.
 
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srp said:
Making doors out of thin ply is always a pain. Better to have a softwood frame around the front, and make the doors with a softwood lipping of the same thickness, so that you can use some 16 or 19mm screws to mount some decent hinges. Some ball catches along the top edge, or maybe magnets. You can still have ropes to hold the doors horizontal (you can get drop down restraint things but they are made of horrible electroplate rubbish, and rope doesn't go rusty.
I would bet that after the first few days afloat you will end up leaving it all set up and in position, unless you're really really conscientious and tidy.
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I think it needs a frame and have the entire front drop down to make a surface

so a bit of framing on the door is necessary

as for leaving it up - I might well do that -

after five years of living and working on the slug - probably getting on for a year in total I had worked out a system for organising myself, the food, the camera gear

This boat is a bit bigger - but not a massive amount bigger -

the camera gear takes priority over the food

Dylan
 
Dylan,

You may be able to stand up cooking but you may find that having the cooker that close to the companionway it will suffer a turbulent draught around the flame dissipating the heat quite badly. Even if head to wind the eddies will be quite big that close to the companionway. May not be too bad with the washboards in and the hatch open. Our cooker is lower and further away and we have to put the washboards in in all but the gentlest breezes or the kettle takes twice as long to boil. It is probably worth just testing it out as it probably depends on the boat.

For the hatches use a piano hinge along the bottom (you will need to cut a straight edge in Mk2) or a quadrant hinge at each end. The quadrant hinges will stop the door when its open to 90 degrees so could be useful as a shelf to put bits on whilst cooking.
 
Didn't want to watch the video while I'm at work, but is there anything to stop it all falling off the seat as soon as you go onto the starboard tack?

Pete
 
You need to have a look in a camping shop for ideas. I suspect that the cooker will require baffles to stop the wind from taking the heat and the shop may also have ideas on how to store crockery/cutlery, such as a hanging pocket system. I will have to work out my commission charges for these suggestions .............

Seem the posts about tacking. I assumed that he does not cook and sail at the same time as the cooking may get in the way of the filming.
 
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prv said:
Didn't want to watch the video while I'm at work, but is there anything to stop it all falling off the seat as soon as you go onto the starboard tack?

Pete
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planning to put a lip on the wooden board it sits on

and also fit a retaining ctach a bit higher up

I have a sort of wooden wind shield to cut the drafts and cooking splashes onto the surrounding cabin lining material

D
 
This is a nice little rack beside the cooker

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thanks for offering

Boathook said:
You need to have a look in a camping shop for ideas. I suspect that the cooker will require baffles to stop the wind from taking the heat and the shop may also have ideas on how to store crockery/cutlery, such as a hanging pocket system. I will have to work out my commission charges for these suggestions .............

Seem the posts about tacking. I assumed that he does not cook and sail at the same time as the cooking may get in the way of the filming.
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I can confirm that you will be entitled to commission as soon as you join the KTL profit share scheme.

The idea is that you can become a share holder in KTL

you be allocated a share which will entitle you to to ten percent of all profits from KTL -

and also become liable for ten per cent of all losses

my wife tells me that KTL loses around £2,500 a year so please send me your contribution to the estimated £12,500 worth of losses incurred to date

please PM me if you are interested in continueing with our exciting priofit sharing business relationship.... or perhaps you would like to buy yourself out of the scheme and be absolved of all future liabilities

Dylan
 
Boathook said:
Seem the posts about tacking. I assumed that he does not cook and sail at the same time as the cooking may get in the way of the filming.
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I wasn't assuming he'd be cooking under way (no gimbals on the stove), just that the whole shebang would slide off the bench.

Pete
 
Lakesailor said:
This is a nice little rack beside the cooker
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That is indeed a cracking rack, but the upkeep would be horrendous. It would need regular attention, and, in my experience, can be so horrendously expensive that you wonder whether a cheaper model - possibly from overseas - might not be a better bet.

Still. Wouldn't mind giving it a rub down...
 
So remind us again why you can't use the existing table which is as the same height and in the same position? Sorry I may have missed some posts :)
 
On the subject of hinges though, I would glue a block of wood to the bottom inside of the flap which will locate it nicely against the hole then have a latch at the top to stop that falling outwards. On my boat this is just a bit of metal on a pivot which dangles down. It's simpler than it sounds I'll try to take pics at the weekend if you like?
 
Couldn't you stow the cooker behind it (after beefing it up) and still have a box to keep things in? Given that box 1 is currently full of box 2 which is full of cooker I think you overestimate the useful space you're creating!
 
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lustyd said:
Couldn't you stow the cooker behind it (after beefing it up) and still have a box to keep things in? Given that box 1 is currently full of box 2 which is full of cooker I think you overestimate the useful space you're creating!
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you speak wise words

although box 1 - the big one goes to and from the boat and to home - it is how I intend transporting all those regular perishables back and forth - eggs, condiments, butter, cereal etc

I think it is useful to be able to get rid of the cooker - to protect it from the boat stuff and the boat stuff from it.

I am sure you are correct though - I might be overcompicating it

hence the prototype status of galley box 1


Dylan
 
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