- Before – a pile of stiles and cabinet face materials
- This door goes to the left of the sink
- This pair of doors goes under the Galley sink
- These two doors, while basically identical, mount in different places: one goes under the fireplace and the other goes on the side of the drying locker
- This large door covers the anchor locker. Its hinge is pretty beat up from the salt.
- After – things are looking a lot better even before the cabinets are refinished
After spending a few days organizing materials from the boat I found a pile of door materials in the aft cabin that were reassembled into doors for the galley and anchor locker.
The cane-faced doors were designed for improved ventilation over solid face frames. The wood will need refinishing but the cane was in fairly decent shape for its age. I was able to pair up the materials into doors and panels and other than a few chips and dings, nothing was really missing.
I used Gorilla Glue (a water resistant polyurethane) to glue the doors and clamped them with some bar clamps from harbor freight. The glue is somewhat flexible and waterproof but not very strong. I think a better choice would be Titebond III or the similar Elmer’s Wood Glue Max for a couple of reasons: they are stronger glues and the glue doesn’t swell up and blow apart the joint as much.