Sailing the Karina C

For the past 6 weeks, we've been slowly tearing apart the galley. The plan is to make a little more room for the engine as it was suggested it needs more room for alignment. So we determined our fall/winter project was to be to tear apart the galley and move one of the cupboard walls in a bit to accommodate the realignment. In the spring, we will do a quick commissioning and then head for Victoria and get an alignment and then we should be good for a while (until the next problem emerges. Karina has been bedeviled with transmission problems that I suspect was due to longstanding issues of alignment dating back to the time the motor was installed (1983). In tearing all the woodwork apart, we only had few casualties: We split some wood taking the old counter off and I accidentally cut through a water hose cutting the old wall away.
We are now out of "destruction" phase and into "construction." Progress is slow because I am afraid of cutting the wood for the new wall., I guess it's only plywood and I can always get more.The split wood has been epoxied and all is ready for me to cut the new wall. I have cut up a piece of cardboard and made a mockup of the wall. I have been fiddling with other minor issues, but tomorrow I have to cut into the plywood.