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Date Posted: - Thursday - 03/10/11 - 10:02pm
Author: Tom Kucera
Subject: Companionway hatch M32
I would like to refinish the sliding hatch on my Mariner 32 off the boat, but it's not obvious how to remove it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Hatch -- Doug Wilson, - Saturday - 03/12/11 - 1:51pm
Remove the screws on the brass slides, slip them aft hatch comes off.
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Companionway hatch -- Tom Kucera, - Thursday - 03/17/11 - 12:52pm
Thanks. I did look at removing the brass sliders as a possibility, but was hoping I was just being thick in not seeing another, easier way. With all those screws having been untouched for some time, I can see multiple opportunities for this to become an epic, rather than routine maintenance. Such is life, I guess, with an old boat.
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Companionway hatch -- Gene Trentham, - Thursday - 03/17/11 - 7:34pm
Tom
Unless your hatch is epoxied together. On the forward end are screws under plugs. Remove them and the cross piece comes off and the hatch slides off, forward. I did it that way 25 years ago, but have to do it again. This time I'll removed the slide screws as I don't want to dismantle the hatch.
have fun
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Companionway hatch -- Tom Kucera, - Thursday - 03/24/11 - 5:19pm
Gene and Doug,
Thanks. I think, if it ever stops raining, I'll attack the sliders. I just hope I can access all the screws. A cursory look indicated that some of the slider screws remain under the hatch, inaccessible, even when I move the hatch all the way forward (open), and all the way aft. I hope I'm wrong, but...
A clarification: you said you removed screws on the forward end of the hatch, removed the cross piece, and slid the hatch off forward. I'm confused - did you slide the hatch off aft, i.e., without the forward cross piece to stop it? Not that I plan on dismantling the hatch structurally.
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Companionway Hatch -- Gene Trentham, - Sunday - 03/27/11 - 8:58pm
Aft. Your correct. Sorry, even though it was a long time ago, aft only makes sense.
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Companionway hatch M32 - continuing bafflement -- Tom Kucera, - Wednesday - 04/ 6/11 - 8:58pm
I'm baffled. I removed the screws on one of the sliders, and that would allow me to remove the hatch by moving the slider toward the middle of the hatch, except there are about 5 inches of slider, and thus several screws, that remain under the hatch over, completely inaccessible. Thus I can't move the entire slider, which prevents the removal of the hatch.
Any suggestions?
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Baffled no more -- Tom Kucera, - Friday - 04/ 8/11 - 12:39pm
After a Eureka! moment, I removed the rolled-up mosquito netting from the inside of the hatch cover, which allowed me to slide the cover forward another half an inch and exposed the last screw holding the brass sliders on. The hatch came right off. Another lesson learned...
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Nice to know -- Paul M31 #106 NJ, - Friday - 04/ 8/11 - 4:41pm
Now I know how to too.
Thanks!
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