those of us who spend a lot of time at the dock know how much stuff can accumulate down here over the course of the day youknow what i hate picking up after my dock side guests time and time again besides where am i going to put this wet stuff? well today we're gonna work on a storagesolution called a dock box to solve this problem found these plans for a dock storage boxin canadian home workshop magazine it's a pretty straightforward project i've got a couple of scraps of three quarter inch ply that we're going to use for the ends first we're going to rip them to width and then we're going to basket bottom profile plans call for a centre eight inches from the top of the basket
and we want a six inch radius or other words half the basket width clamp these together and cut them out with my jigsaw i'm going to give them a quick sanding just to tidy them up so, here we are we got a couple finished slats....these come out of five quarters by six cedar really don't have to but it looks a lot better if you do some treatment to the edge alright ready for assembly i got my basket ends and my basket is upside down obviously we've got the basket finished time to do the legs plans call for two and a quarter by twoand a quarter legs
so, i'm going to have to rip this four by four cedar to that dimension so, i need four at seventeen these are going to be positioned like this...at both ends here we go! done and done! now we're on to the lid! i'm gonna glue five together, good quality outdoor wood glue notice that bead dead centre that's because i know what i'm doing i'm a trained professional i've left these long because i'll cut it to length after it dries
now the worst part of this of course is that you have to wait for the glue to set...and that's going to take the good part of an hour so what am i going to do in the meantime alright glue is set i'm just going to take the mark clamps off plans call for the lid to be seventy inchesin length so i'll cross cut that to length we've prompted to use these nice decorative tee hinges and most importantly they're super easy to put on could be a little overkill but i'm gonnause number nine three inch deck screws
now the plans don't call for it but you can see i added a chain stay to prevent the kids or my son-in-law from ripping the hinges out let's get this thing down to the dock well this dockside box sure is a big improvement makes clean up around here easy and the added bonus the ventilation gets rid of that stinking mildew problem look at this! now if i could just come up with a solution to clean up this mess
for cottage life this is wayne lennox reminding you that a small project goes a long way at the cottage yea we need some lines looking pretty good looks alright you wanna make a scoreboard?