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Date Posted: - Thursday - 03/17/11 - 12:52pm
Author: Tom Kucera
Subject: Companionway hatch
In reply to: Doug Wilson 's message, "Hatch" on - Saturday - 03/12/11 - 1:51pm

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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