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Originally Posted by DRFerron
That's their time to recover from the broken limbs so they can go back out and run into the trees, fall off of ski lifts, and over cliffs all over again.
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I always assumed that the hot doggin' snowboarders became hot doggin' jet skiiers during the summer.
Last winter my "big project" was an AIS/VHF radio. It would have been very small, except I decided to make it transmit data wirelessly via Bluetooth, which made it into a bigger affair.
This winter my boredom killer is a "new" table for my cabin. The Catalina 250 is blessed/cursed with a really nice, roomy cabin table that is great for opening charts (and eating), but severely hinders access to the settee lockers and front v-berth (and its ample storage underneath). After designing a new table with leaves that would flip up on top of the central table, I decided that was too ambitious and decided instead to chop my current table down to a much smaller drop leaf design. I'm going to veneer over the yellowing formica with a nice hardwood, and polyurethane clear coat.
Here's my original design (since abandoned). The black outline is a rough approximation of the floor layout. The light cyan is an approximation of the current C250 table, the light green is the bottom layer of the table, and the yellow is the two folded over parts. You can also see the compression post, and an outline of the central pedestal used on late model C250WK models:
Here's a pic of the current table, with drop leaf seams Photoshopped in (my finished project will have hardwood veneer):
Cardboard mock-up of the table:
Test of the drop-leaf brackets on my cardboard mock-up:
Current state of the table - waiting for time to apply the veneer and piano hinges:
You can see that cutting the table down from 37" wide to 10" wide will greatly improve access to v-berth and storage. Raising the leaves restores the table to its original dimensions.
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