I’ve been thinking about the doors a bit. There’s got to be a better way to do those. The current construction method has you cutting them out and THEN installing the door stiffener and the door frame. This is almost guaranteed to result in the doors not being the same shape as the shell after you install the frame. I think if the door frame was built up in two parts, you could install it first (overlapping the cut line) to stabilize the shell AND the door. Then if you cut the door out by cutting down the middle of the frame, you would end up with some of the frame glued onto the door and some of it glued onto the shell. Hopefully they would both hold the same shape at that point. Then you could just glue on a lip to the shell part of the frame to act as a door stop/seal. Something to think about for next time. 😉
Jumping over to a different task… I got the mounting holes marked and drilled from the bottom.
Then I taped up the bottom and filled the holes with thickened epoxy. After that cured, I re-drilled from the top.
My holes weren’t perfectly vertical, but it turned out ok because I didn’t get into the wood and there is enough slop designed in that everything still lines up well enough. The bolts are a bit loose in the holes.
I’m super duper happy to have this step done. Just need to finish mounting the galley hatch and then I’ll be down to just finish work. Sanding, varnish, etc.
