[Public-list] Main Hatch Cover Replacement

Wed Oct 26 13:53:13 PDT 2005

Andrew,

This is ahead of me as well. Pictures of your
installation would be great.

John C.

--- "Cole, Andrew L" <andrew.cole at llff.com> wrote:

> John,
> 
> I have a suggestion for your hatch slider as an
> alternative to several
> longitudinal pieces of wood caulked in between.
> 
> My wife and I recently purchased Alan Kefauver's
> boat, Andante.  Alan
> built a new slider by laminating fairly thin and
> flexible wood
> alternated with fiberglass to a thickness of
> somewhere between 1/2 and
> 3/4 inch (I have not taken it apart so I'm not sure
> how thick it is).
> The slider built this way is extremely strong, I can
> stand on it without
> any flex whatsoever.  The appearance is attractive
> (although ours
> desperately needs to be refinished), an
> uninterrupted span of whatever
> wood you use for your top lamination.  The slider
> fits under the sea
> hood that is installed on our boat.
> 
> If it would be of any help, I have the jig that Alan
> built with which to
> laminate the curved part of the slider and would be
> happy to loan it to
> you (or anyone else looking to rebuild a slider).
> 
> I believe Alan also built the new hatch boards which
> sound fairly
> similar to those on your boat, I don't have any
> helpful information
> beyond what you apparently already know on those,
> although if you have
> any questions, I can pass them along to him to see
> if he has any
> suggestions.
> 
> Andrew Cole
> Andante - 152
> 
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:11:52 -0400
> From: "JOHN GRAVES" <jg1111 at msn.com>
> Subject: [Public-list] Main Hatch Cover Replacement
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"
> <Public-list at alberg30.org>
> Message-ID:
> <BAY104-DAV178BB6DE93931A508673E5C8690 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> I am replacing the sliding hatch cover and the
> boards that slide into
> the companionway leading from the cockpit to the
> main cabin of my Alberg
> 30 "Trelawney". Has anyone done this before, or
> knows about this, that
> could comment? The old ones were made of mahogany.
> They have been on the
> boat since I bought it 21 years ago. They could be
> original equipment. I
> don't know. The boat was built in 1965. I am
> planning to have them
> constructed of solid teak similar to the old
> mahogany ones. I was
> wondering what the different designs of hatch covers
> and boards (I want
> to say the term is duck boards or something like
> that) on Alberg 30's
> are? I am sure there are many different designs and
> options. The sliding
> hatch cover on mine is made of 5 planks running
> longitudinally and
> framed on the outside and with strips of mahogany
> adding additional
> support on the underside and looks to be screwed and
> glued. There are
> grooves between the planks on the outside surface on
> top which is cauked
> with
>   black cauking. There are two boards that slide
> into the companionway.
> The bottom one looks to be marine plywood framed in
> mahogany and the
> upper one is mahogany, louvered for ventalation,
> with screen on the
> inside. The aft end of the sliding hatch cover on
> the underside has a
> hinged hasp that folds down over an eye on the upper
> duckboard for a
> padlock to go through. I think I have seen before on
> other sailboats a
> strip of metal about one inch wide and several
> inches long that is
> somehow attached to the underside of the sliding
> hatchcover and slides
> through a slot in the upper duckboard where a
> padlock can be passed
> through a hole in the metal strip. This seems to be
> a great design.
> There may be a company that makes this type of
> hardware. Has anyone seen
> this anywhere. It seems like on what I have seen
> before the slot was
> framed in a bronze looking insert inserted into the
> wood. I am planning
> to have the planks on the top of the sliding hatch
> cover joined together
> by 1 inch internal spleens with the grain running
> perpendicular to the
> grain of the planks to give strength and prevent
> splitting. I also want
> ribs running atwartship on the underside. Any
> comments would be
> appreciated. John
> 
> ------------------------------  
> 
> Cole, Andrew L
> Admitted in Maryland, Virginia & Florida
> One Corporate Center
> 10451 Mill Run Circle, Suite 1000
> Baltimore MD 21117
> 
>  
> tel: 410 581-7408
> fax: (410) 581-7410
> mob: (410) 206-3577
> 
>
--------------------------------------------------------
> This message contains confidential information and
> is intended only for public-list at alberg30.org. If
> you are not public-list at alberg30.org you should not
> disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please
> notify andrew.cole at llff.com immediately by e-mail if
> you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete
> this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission
> cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as
> information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost,
> destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain
> viruses. Cole, Andrew L therefore does not accept
> liability for any errors or omissions in the
> contents of this message, which arise as a result of
> e-mail transmission. If verification is required
> please request a hard-copy version.
>
--------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> These businesses support your Association:
> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
> Please support them.
> _______________________________________________
> Public-list mailing list
> Public-list at alberg30.org
> http://alberg30.org/mailman/listinfo/public-list
> 

__________________________________ 
Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
http://farechase.yahoo.com

 1130359993.0