Vera - LLV (Laurinlahden Venekerho)

Another small project before this summer season, bath stairs and jetty looked like it had seen its better days. Unfortunately over the years there has been both teak oil as teak lacquer as protection, this year we have tried to refurbish it from scratch! First off with all old varnish, then clean the teak in two steps. And now, the final step with oil. And the wood is really soaking the oil! Products bought from Motonet and worked really nice! Our boat look very sad without the jetty I must say. The footsteps to the bath stair, quite an improvement! And here's the jetty, before and "after" (still oiling it, it still soak in a lot)

Back in 2013 we bought new milled nameplates, however when looking in the mirror the manufacturer probably had missed one or two layers lacquer in the finish. The signs has more and more looked pretty awful and now we're trying to fix that problem. However it might not be the easiest thing to undertake when we understood the challenge. The manufacturer have probably painted with two component varnish all over till all layers were set. After that he painted the white and lightly sanded so that the edge between white and wood became sharp, then finished with clear lacquer over everything. Even though the lacquer is off we now have a slightly problem as two components have been a bit hard to find and a one component lacquer will turn the white yellow... And somehow we need to get a protection over the edge between the white paint and the wood...

In the old kitchen and under the stove we have had a fridge, now we thought of have a cooling box there instead. And the reason why it's a lot of space in there is because the water tank use to be on that side (now we have it in the front, under the beds). We thought we could have a drawer above the cooling box to maximum the space, but if so also have the cooling box itself on a drawer.  Yeah I know, it didn't looked much to the world. But there were still a long way to go before install them into the boat. Now it starts to look better!

The Spring and the new boat season of 2018 started with installing the new stove and sink, plus get an authorized plumbing fitter to make a proper installation of the gas.    

A year ago, and in the end of the season of 2017, our stove decided it had enough and gave up. To get spare parts would cost more than to buy a new one and therefore we decided to do a re-make the whole kitchen. The old stove, or should we say "kitchen island", was a combined stove + sink, plus a never ever used fridge. We didn't even knew if it was installed correctly from the beginning, so we took the safe before the unsafe and through that away too.   With all the old stuff away, we had to plan how to fit the new kitchen and also, how to save as much as the old woodwork as possible. The bench lid had previously rested on the stove, now we had to build up a framework to keep the old cover up solution.