Somewhere for Coffee Cup

On those cold mornings when you want to lay in bed and enjoy reading a book, with a hot cup of tea or coffee at hand while the wind and rain attack those who venture outside, a place is needed to rest the coffee cup.

This coffee stand needed to be within easy reach. The aft berth on Moor or Less will have the head of the berth forward (not planned to be used while sailing), the area next to the pillow, against the hull seemed like a good location for a small (very small) bedside table.

To make the top of the bedside cabinet a small piece of cabin sole ply with the teak and ask striped paneling has been used. Around the top of the table surface, a small fiddle is installed to stop items sliding off should there be a rolling anchorage. Access to the small cabinet below is through the hinged table top which tilts up, pivoting from the hull side of the hull.

I wanted the lid of the storage compartment to be slightly higher than the mattress of the bunk. Similar compartments were also needed on either side of the V-berth.

Measuring Up
Starting with the aft cabin, and Using a piece of cardboard for a template, the shape of the hull was traced and cut out.

The hull is moving outwards as you move forward, and not paralell to the berth. The top of he compartment will be in two parts and consist of a lifting rectangle piece hinged off a tappered piece which is attached to the hull.Using small stainless steel butt hinges to joing the two pieces of the compartment top, it will be neccessary to joint them by the hinges prior to attaching the fixed piece to the cabinet.

Installation
With the hull as one side of the cabinet, the bulkhead as another, and the bunk base as the bottom, leaving only two sides and the top to be created.. The two sides of the cabinet are made from maple 90mm x 12mm, and are sealed using interior vanish, as is the cabinet top.To attach the cabinet to the hull and bulkhead, small timber battens needed to be attached with Epoxy. The sides of the cabinets will be screwed onto these timber battens allowing it to be removed easily if required in the future.

Obtaining the profile of the vertical curve on the hull where the cabinet side attached to the hull was obtained by placing the partially constructed cabinet on the bunk next to where it is to be installed, and the profile "fished" onto the side of the cabinet. Once the profile has been cutout on the side of the cabinet, the locations of the battens could be marked and glued in place.Once the Epoxy had set, the cabinet was attached with s/s screws, and the inside of the cabinet lined with the synthetic felt. Contact Adhesive was used to bond the lining to the cabinet.