The Find

THE near DEATH AND RE BIRTH

OF A

1979 HUNTER 37 CHERUBINI CUTTER

HUNTER 37 CUTTER

Rear Cabin

Removed all the lining materials inside the cabinet and along the hull. Installed new marine mold proof carpet. It smells much better now. Build a box to cover the deck drain out of teak.

The complete picture

The Good, The bad and the real ugly

This is the partition for the rear cabin. Door slides into it. Veneer was delaminating. I started to sand it but realized there was nothing there to work with.

I used 1/2" maple cabinet grade plywood and glued a 1/4" Teak panel to it. I was cheaper than buying 3/4" material and much lighter to ship. Also I needed 1/4 for the bottom of the setees. After gluing the two panels, I place several pallets full of flooring on top to make a good bond while it dried

This is what the panel looked after it was installed and stained.

The sliding door track is a regular household pocket door track. The rollers were available at Lowes and I replaced all of the with new ones.

While I was taking out the door, the whole thing came apart. I guess the glue was long gone and the stiles and panels were all loose. I reglued the whole thing with waterproof glue and used bar clamps to hold it together while it dried.

One coat of satin poly has brought the luster of the teak.

Working the partition and door to the aft cabin

This is the interior of the top cabinet. It includes the deck water fill and the water tank vent.

Notice the dirt dubbers nest. There were 4 or 5 like that on the boat in some of the cabinets.

Cleaned, lined and I built a teak box to cover all the piping. New formica alos on the shelving.

Top cabinet

This is the interior of the bottom cabinet. The large wrench is the manual start for the Yanmar engine. Hope not to use it

Nice and clean. The A/C electrical box fits on the bottom shelf

New floor, new walls, new paint, new cabinets.

Bulkhead were mirror was located. Painted and new mirror was placed.

Woodwork completed on rear cabin

First coat of satin was applied to seal all the woodwork

Replaced outlet with a GFI outlet and pulled power for a small can light. It uses a 20w bulb and it's perfect to light up the bunk area. Also pulled a 12 volts cable to power a 12v outlet. This enables me to run a fan in the summer. charge my phone, ect.

This bulkhead was re painted since the original wallpaper was vinyl but very dirty. It took the paint very well. The A/C is located under the nav deck on the other side of the bulkhead and blows through a 4" lovered vent.. The mirror is 1/4" from the wall and behing it I ran the coax and power cables to the TV from the nav table. I hate dangling wires.