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Pizza Party
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Initially Posted - 08/10/2016 : 15:38:48

The lady and I are living aboard this season, and we felt the original c25 galley was severely limited. The original sink could barely be used to rinse a coffee mug and, from my perspective, was poorly placed as there was no sensible way to stand upright and use it. The ice box also had little to no real use to us as we own a 12v fridge/freezer. Finally the gimballed stove was not to our liking either. We prefer to cook primarily in the cockpit as it keeps smells/greases/etc out of our living space, so we opted to use an inexpensive portable butane stove we already owned. After deciding to take out the counter top (which the previous owner had let go bad), the sink, and the stove the fun began. Here is what we came up with.

The countertop we cut out of relatively inexpensive Aspen. We used a router to form the miter joint that joins the two sections in the corner. For the sink hole, we used a skillsaw to plunge the four sides in a straight line, and then used a jigsaw to carefully cut the rounded corners. This allowed us to maintain the grain of the countertop within the sink insert. We sealed the whole counter using Awlwood clear/satin.

The sink is a Kohler stainless steel sink that retailed around 200 dollars, but the lady found this one new on ebay for little more than 50 bucks. We installed it to the new counter with small screws and clear lifeseal. We plumbed it directly to the through-hull directly below using 1" pvc tubing. This required us to cut out a hole in the hull liner below the sink for the plumbing to go through.

The sink greatly improved our ability to actually do dishes while living aboard. We have plans to finish the whole remodel with a pull-out faucet, but in the meantime we have a hose system directly below the sink.

The original pull-out drawer no longer would have clearance to be reinstalled with the new plumbing in the way, so we simply refashioned it into a hinged utensil pocket just below the sink. It has been more useful than I even thought it would be originally.

There are a few finishing touches still to be done, including adding a walling around the underside of the sink. Ironically in the meantime we have grown to enjoy the slot next to the underside of the sink, as it has become a very convenient place to slide our cutting board when not in use. An opening for the board has been added into our final plans for the whole remodel :)

Hope you all like it! I know we do ;)

1983 TR FK Dinette C25 on Lake Superior

Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 08/10/2016 : 16:24:42

WOW ... VERY nice!!

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offshoreaccount
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Response Posted - 08/10/2016 : 16:48:43

Beautiful. Where is the fridge?

Offshore Account, 1977 Hull #243. SR, SK

Pizza Party
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Response Posted - 08/10/2016 : 17:55:26

We keep our fridge were the head was originally. Our entire v berth area has also been modified to be more of a pantry/storage area. I'll upload pics sometime of our arrangement. Needless to say certain things must be sacrificed to make life aboard possible for two on a 25 footer. We would have liked to have had the fridge somewhere closer but nowhere seemed sensible for us. The bilge licker was an option but would have been more trouble than it was worth. Permanently installing where the icebox is would be posdible, but honestly we use the fridge on the road as well so we didn't want to trap it in the boat (not to mention the countertop would be much less attractive in that situation).

1983 TR FK Dinette C25 on Lake Superior

sethp001
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Response Posted - 08/10/2016 : 18:07:20

WOW! Very nice!

Seth
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Response Posted - 08/10/2016 : 18:14:47

Brilliant idea! Makes total sense to lay all this out the way you did! Not sure why someone else hasn't already thought about this layout.

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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 08/12/2016 : 09:43:48

Very interesting and nice! Looking at this starts the wheels moving. I am thinking now that it could make it much more desirable (and easier/safer) to:

1. Move and mount the electric panel/breakers above the drawers in front of the existing sink,
2. Replace and move the sink as you are doing, and
3. Install a sliding shelf that is underneath the new sink but pulls out to put a portable stove on for cooking

The result would be a far more usable galley AND more convenient electrical location!

Great seeing your great (and paradigm shifting) idea!!

Peter Bigelow
C-25 TR/FK #2092 Limerick
Rowayton, Ct
Port Captain: Rowayton/Norwalk/Darien CT

Edited by - bigelowp on 08/12/2016 09:45:19

WesAllen
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Response Posted - 08/12/2016 : 13:32:11

After I remodeled my galley someone pointed out that I should have move the sink. That is a very smart and good looking job you have done so far. Keep us posted with the final results. Looks great.

Wesley Allen
"Breaking Wind"
1982 C-25 SR/TR/SK #2773
Hemlock, MI

Pizza Party
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Response Posted - 08/13/2016 : 16:18:29

Hey thanks everyone!

bigelowp, something I would keep in mind is the size of the sink drain fitting. If you want to have a sliding drawer below the sink, you need a significantly offset sink drain to one side or the other. Ours is offset to the bow and if we really pinched it for space, we could probably manage to jimmy a 10 inch wide drawer astern of it. The drain really is that prohibitive. (Also, if your sink is as deep as ours, the drawer will only be about 1 1/4" deep). Furthermore, any faucet or hose arrangement you come up with will further prohibit the space directly below the sink for a sliding drawer.

One of the head scratchers we hurdled over doing our set up was coming up with a sensible way to couple the sink drain fitting from a household sink (1 1/2") to the 1" though-hull on the boat. It isn't pretty but it works. We needed to use 2 pvc pipe couplers to get down to the appropriately sized thread for the 1" nipple/barb to join to the pvc tubing. We also needed to special order a brass nipple for the through hull to replace the one that we had previously as well. It had had 1" threads for the through hull and 3/4" barbs for the sink/ice box drain hoses.

Truthfully, we probably could have gotten away with 3/4" pvc tubing, but then we only would have had to add yet another coupler to the whole coupler fiesta.

1983 TR FK Dinette C25 on Lake Superior

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