Chip & Debbie Willis on s\v Elegant'sea: Galley/Force 10 - replaced bronze stove bar and replaced bronze towel hooks

Beginning of November 2015 - At private slip in Nuevo Vallarta in Banderas Bay, MexicoA

The existing brass two-hook towel holder.

late summer idea was to re-do the stove bar...from brass to stainless steel.

Before we did the galley varnishing.

Here. the bronze galley bar looks good but over time it got all tarnished and was impossible to keep looking nice. The bronze 7\8 pipe that goes across the Force 10 stove is what we wanted to replace with SS. When Islander Yachts made the boat the stove was a brown 70's color so the bronze matched a lot better. As it is, this is near impossible to keep looking nice and we have tried coating it after polishing it. A SS one is in order. .

There was a brass two-prong towel hook here.

We had a Kohler towel two-prong holder left over from the head refit. We did the head shower system all in Kohler hardware. We took off the brass hook and replaced it with this Kohler one.

It uses a set screw to hold the Kohler hook to the bracket.

Looks nice. It is chrome plated but does not look

off from the SS stove or stove bar.

We took the bronze stove brace to the weld shop, "Chaba's"..

Note 2018

This weld shop has since moved. If you just continue going down the street to the end where it turn to dirt then you will see a nice new building on the left and that is it.

New weld shop

Old

Well it is Salvador Covarrubis S.

Tel.(322) 22 134 14

Fco. J. Echeveria No 141, col. Guadalupe Victoria

(Note that we did try our regular welder, Enrique at Elario Gonzales'

however he got very busy in October as well as not having 7/8" SS tubing.)

"Chaba's".

"Chaba" did a fine job, or I should say his guys, did a fine job on some stern rail support work we had done a couple years ago at our boat. We found his shop this time and it is a lot better cost-wise if you can design the job and bring it to the shop. That is what we did with the davits. Big price difference.