[Alberg30] Rookie questions

[Douglas Wight]

Bill:  Owlet again,  further to Bob's comments Owlet's seat locker panels
were so deteriorated that I had all of the wood routed out and the void
filled with GRP and a none slip surface . This makes for a good solid locker
lid which bears a lot of stress where you step in and out of the boat.
Cheers, Doug Wight  "Owlet".
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  On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 07:25 PM, Mary & Bill Mahony wrote:


    2.  The boat has no compass...is there a recommendation for a compass?
Is the little compartment just aft of the companionway the preferred
location?


    3.  The cockpit seat locker panels are deteriorated...any info on what
kind of wood these were originally?



  Bill,

  If you use a conventional liquid filled compass the compartment in the
bridge deck is too close to the engine and therefore will make it difficult
to compensate the compass for deviation. I have mine located on the left
bulkhead. I'm not sure if flux-gate compasses are in use nowadays, but, if
so, the indicator could be in the bridge deck as long as the flux gate
itself is located in an appropriate location away from iron or other
magnetic material. I use the bridge deck compartment for my depth sounder.

  On our boat the seat locker panels, lazarette hatch and companionway hatch
were all laminated teak. I sanded them down to the next layer of teak each
time they wore down to the glue joints. After some years, the teak in the
seat lockers got below the level of the fiberglass top of the seat and I
replaced the laminated teak with solid teak planks about rwo inches wide.
The space between planks were filled with a black sealant.I found that the
seat then would flex along the sealant. (The laminated teak had been
providing stiffness to the seat.) If you use solid planks this way you
should put stiffening on the inside of the seat.I made the thickness of the
teak planks thick enough so that I could sand the teak down without taking
the surface below the surrounding fiberglass.

  Good Luck with the new boat,

  Bob Johns, Wind Call #397
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