A New Teak Table

I had been storing a pile of teak, afromosia and various tropical hardwoods, all culled from Exeter University, during rebuilds of their laboratories.

So, on moving some down to Karen's rather than more storing I decided to make a table out of some teak which came from the Geology Dept.

Decided to make an extending table as we dont have a big house and it was more economical in wood.

The extending mechanism I found on the web at http://www.bkservicesonline.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=60_61

They do all the bits to make an extending table.

New Windows for Diva

Diva has been languishing in the Exeter Canal over the winter as she has for the last 3 years. Tied up to Grenvilles
"Gentlemans Cruising Yacht" Grenville lives on his boat and
produces handmade clothes and also does a bit of welding!

I had been working my self up to redoing the windows on Diva. They leaked - though not badly but were very crazed.


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Typically, doing this kind of job one thing leads to another and I ended up taking all the head and side linings out and getting rid of them and painting the inside roof and fixing the grab handles properly - bolting them through - setting them into epoxy. Boat a mess at the moment but it will
soon clean up.
After lots of investigation I decided to stick the windows in using double sided VHB foam tape (very high bond) and 295 sikaflex therefore no
screws to stop the window moving as it wants to.
More decisions - acrylic or polycarbonate. I found a web site with a little trick to make the windows
look good - its been done on car glued car windows for some time - paint the back of the
plastic with 2 part car paint and hide all the 'orrible tape and goo. Looks like the decks need attending to.