[Public-list] Mast rake. Ventilation

[Mike Lehman]

Our boats all had louvered main companionway hatches. If your boat does not, 
then then are not original.



Mike Lehman
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----Original Message Follows----
From: edward schroeder <eddiediver at sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at alberg30.org>
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at alberg30.org>
Subject: [Public-list] Mast rake. Ventilation
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:03:21 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks to all regarding your advice and warnings regarding shroud tension. 
My mast support beam is doing very well, thank you. (Better than MY mast 
support, but I digress.)

   New subject: Ventilation.(I mentioned this before but got few responses)

   Has anyone changed the ventilation sysem of the cabin? We are usually 
moored to a slip so don't point into the wind. We have no louvers in the 
companionway boards. We have a 3 inch cowl vent, always pointing forward, on 
a dorade box directly over the head. We have a solar Powervent 3000 on the 
deck directly in front of the forward hatch. We HAD a 3 inch diameter, 10 
inch high, metal screw-in cowl vent that could be turned 360 degrees over 
the anchor rode locker. One of the disturbed underprivaliged kids we take 
out threw it overboard. Before I replace it, I am considering alternatives.

   A dorade box above the rode locker would get stepped on under the sails. 
A solar vent in that location would be subject to "green water" in a storm. 
I don't think that I really need to vent the rode locker as we seldom get 
the rode wet so there is little smell. There is not much room on the cabin 
top for another Powervent with the fan blade blowing the opposite direction 
from the existing vents. It seems that louvers in the companionway boards is 
the way to start.

   Has anyone used plastic or metal louvers in the companionway boards?

   Ed. Schroeder #303


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