[Alberg30] galley and nav station reconstruction

[J Bergquist]

Dear List,

Since I am big on cooking, I am planning to improve my galley, along 
with some other projects I have going at the current time. One of my 
highest priorities is to improve the cooler. I figure I should be able 
to keep a block of ice for at least several days and hopefully up to a 
week in the summertime. The cooler I currently have is the one that has 
a hatch in the cockpit and a side-opening door in the cabin. It is on 
the portside, and I assume it is pretty standard.

I saw how the guy who does http://www.triton381.com had a similar cooler 
and improved his galley situation by removing it, constructing a 
top-loader on the portside in its place, with the countertop doubling as 
a flat surface for food preparation and as a nav station (his electrical 
panel and VHF are located portside outboard and above the 
cooler/countertop). I thought this was a good arrangement, but that it 
would require pretty major reconstruction.

Another friend of mine who used to own an A30 told me that he replaced 
the portside cockpit/side opening cooler with an RV style propane 
stove/oven (not gimballed, fore-aft orientation - the oven door opened 
forward), then moved the cooler to the starboard side outboard of the 
sink. This sounds really cool (because I love to bake, and the idea of a 
sho-nuff stove with oven is very appealing). I figured I could take my 
non-pressurized Origo stove and move it to the portside for now (once 
I've removed the old cooler and made a new countertop), and that would 
leave room for expansion to the propane model when I can afford it 
(which, unfortunately, is not now). In the meantime, I could utilize all 
that space outboard of the sink and below the counter (which is a royal 
PIA to access right now because I have a folding counter on the forward 
side of the sink cabinet fwd. bhd., which gets in the way of opening the 
beneath cabinet hatch) for the cooler. Then I would have a cooler 
outboard of the sink, starboard. This would also be advantageous because 
it would be far from the machinery space (a big source of heat and 
therefore also a drain on the cooler's efficiency). Then I thought that 
I could also maybe come up with some creative way to use the shelves 
that are currently installed outboard of the cooler on the portside, 
running back to the bulkhead between the cabin and portside cockpit 
locker. One thing I could do with that space is install a new electrical 
panel (my boat is in desperate need of one). I am looking for other 
creative ideas.

What do y'all think about all this? Has anybody done this kind of job 
recently and have some words of wisdom? Or a better idea?

J Bergquist
Calliope #287

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