I made a trip to Minney’s in Costa Mesa on Saturday and brought home a haul of goods. I took a wish list with me that had all the critical dimensions.
- Two teak hatch covers $75 each. These mesaure abotu 36×30 but are parallelograms, not square cornered hatches. I have a plan to square them up at the cost of just a couple of inches of length. Hopefully they aren’t glued too well!
- Manual Vertical Capstan Windlass. The windlass was $95 and the Barient winch handle was $28
- 2 Yanmar manual starter cranks. I bought one last visit for $3 but it turned out the inner diameter was too small. These are definitely larger and a couple of different lengths, too. Each was $3.
- Companionway doors. These are light but really well made and feature some integral removable screens and glass panels. One glass panel is missing and the bottoms were roughly cut. The kick is that the width was just about perfect – 11.5 inches. They’ll need to be cut to length – about 25″ and radiused anyways. The best part was the price $21 each!
- four bits of pull-apart perko hinge I can use on the door, they were priced $3 but they were thrown in.
- A water faucet for $12. I’m hoping that I can open it up and replace the leather valve.
- Cole stove with stack. This one is similar to the one on Jules but came with a 3″ stack that has a damper. it’s a little larger in the frame and has a side deflector. Perfect for Oz – $145
- The coup – two bronze bollards for $16 and $48. Check out the price over at. Basically these went for the price I would have paid for shipping on “the one that got away” over on eBay
- A hatch prop for the forward cabin $12
- A bag of miscellaneous teak stuff for $20 and another Teak Handrail bit for $12
- A wooden teak & holly cutting board for $5
- A red bag about 8′ long that I think will make a nice tiller cover
They had a good price on a Hille-Range propane oven but it was looking a little tired and the door had some rust through on the inside, so I held off hoping Craigslist will turn up another Origo 6000 or Force 10 oven, or something similar.
On the way out we stopped in Long Beach to stop at the Captains Locker, which I was hoping was another consignment place but it turned out to be a well stocked boat supply that sold only new items. On the way out though I checked out the West Marine at the same harbor to see what they had in the discount section, and there I found a 6″ nickel plated bell, new for $5.17.
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- Here’s a pump faucet. Just the chrome part sticks up above the counter
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- A couple views of the Cole stove here. It has an adjustable baffle on the right side and it came with a stainless steel 3″ stack that has a damper in it.
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- I’m hoping I can take out the screws and square it up with some minor mitering, then recut the ends. I am not sure how well it’s glued up.
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- You can see the hatch is a parallelogram not a rectangle.
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- The curve here is pretty glorious. I hope I can adapt them into hatch or companionway covers.
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- There are two of these curved hatch covers. They are little diamond shaped, not square.
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- You can see the toggles that are used to hold the screen and/or glass in place and beneath them a nice bronze latch.
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- This is a teak and holly cutting board that goes over the top of the stove. I had only the finish dimensions of my Origo 6000 but I figured for $5 it is worth a try.
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- Here are a couple bollards. Both chrome plated bronze. The one on the the right will be shined up a bit and the one on the left will stay salty. There’s some iron rust on it that needs to be polished off, though.
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- I missed out on the auction of this bronze bollard – it’s one’s nicer but it went for $50 + 17 shipping.
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- This is a vertical windlass with stacked winch barrel for anchor rode on top and a gypsy for chain on the bottom. The winch handle was separate. I got a big, long nasty Barient non-locking Barient handle for $28. The total was about $132 for the pair. I think the chrome will polish up pretty well, and if not, it’s bronze underneath!
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- This is just a foot long hatch prop.