Monday, September 08, 2008

new salon table

Sorry for not posting lately. We purchased a new salon table this weekend. The table that was originally in the boat was one very large table that was taking up too much room - especially while living aboard. We had taken that out shortly after we moved aboard 4 years ago. Yes, it was just 4 years last week that we moved aboard and we still love it! We had always planned to have a table made but it's "on the list" along with hundreds and hundreds of other things :) We periodically stop in at Second Wave a consignment shop for used marine items. We stopped in last Friday and they had this table there which is pretty much exactly what we had in mind to have made. It's mahogany and in really good shape! It's like it was made for our boat. It has two side leaves that fold down/up. When they are folded down the table is not very wide so it's easy to move around the table. We still have to get it bolted to the "floor" but for now we can move it around. It's also gimballed (basically you can change the angle of the table) using a simple dowel method so it has 3 different positions. It has a long, skinny drawer which is nice.