A cruising blog you should be reading, an excellent point, and in the “why you need that flu shot” department…
One project I’ll do on the Islander is replace the too-deep galley sink with something shallower. Since I’m too cheap to buy a stainless sink, I’ll make one. Plywood/glass being my choice.
The project itself won’t take much time work-wise, but turns our cockpit into a project hell zone, keeping it off the current to do list.
Lately, I’ve had the urge to replace my corded tools with cordless ones. I’ve considered migrating to the boat-friendly Bosch compact tools. They’re exactly what I want. I’ll even admit lusting over the Bosch 12V plane…
With a plane like this, I’d rule the world!
I’m invested in the Ryobi 18V system, it’s sensible to continue using it. Truth be told, I want the $200 Bosch plane but don’t need it. The $79 Ryobi cordless plane does everything I need it to do.
Yeah, need/want will get you every time.
Sure, I know I’ll get a bunch of “You get what you pay for” and “Ryobi is crap” push back. However, in my personal experience I’ve never had an issue with Ryobi. Wood butchers I know with Festool and Bosch tools seem to have as many issues as Ryobi and B&D users do.
Knocking on wood as we speak.
Ryobi has a couple of new saws coming out that I’ll be getting. A circular saw that I’ll fill a void in my quiver and jettison some circular saws that take up room and are seldom used. I can certainly use the space.
Their brushless barrel grip jigsaw has some improvements over my current Ryobi jigsaw. Which is a bummer as it falls into the want rather than need zone.
So it does go.
I have a double wooden sink in my boat that was originally built by the previous owner. It was built of top-quality wood (not plywood) but the bottom of one of the bowels cracked when I spent a year in a very hot and dry climate. I overlaid the cracked wood with epoxy coated plywood then coated the whole thing inside and out with multiple cats of epoxy (no glass) then multiple coats of polyurethane and it is holding up really well. What I like about is that it is very quiet when I drop something, unlike stainless steel. Let me know if you would like a picture.
I have jumped on the battery tool bandwagon. The problem is that once you start with a particular brand you pretty much have to stick with it unless you want to buy multiple battery systems. I started with the Milwaukie system, so I guess that is what I am stuck with.
Surely you find a used marine/RV sink on the island? My last marine sink came from the dump and maybe cost $5 at their recycle shop. Even a scrap metal dealer could have something.
Cheers