Large Table

 

 

This is the first table I made. I made it out of the door to the head which I took off because it was too inconvenient.

 

The Schock table and leg were hideously cumbersome and really ugly.

 

The original Santana table socket in the cabin was an accident (more like a sinking!) waiting to happen. It was just a fiberglass socket (and starting to crack) screwed (with wood screws) to a hole in the floor and loaded up with 5200. The problem was that this was a hole into the water ballast tank! Any breach in the wood screws or cracked fiberglass would mean a leak into the cabin (can you say Mayday?)!

 

I replaced the socket (very time consuming - you have to add the 3M 5200 "multiplier" to any estimated times) with a water inlet deck fill, the bottom of which I sealed off with a PVC pipe cap and 5200. I epoxied and sealed the exposed edge of the 3/4 inch plywood that made up the sole.

 

I really only needed the threaded socket part of the deck fill and it was convenient to have a little cap to screw in over the hole. This provided a mating part for the PVC pipe table leg I made for the table.

 

I used webbing material to make drink holders so that when stowed, they could compress down and not be sticking out underneath the table.

 

I put a small fiddle around the table using quarter-round house molding.

 

I also put a deck-fill socket (the same kind) in the cockpit floor after removing the original fiberglass one there. You can see the white PVC cap at the bottom.

 

This is the table stowed along the wall in the head. There is a "track" along the floor and an "L" shaped wood block near the back to hold it upright.

 

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