[Public-list] anchor locker hatch
dan walker
dsailormon at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 9 08:46:27 PST 2007
richard, thanks for sharing the pics. did you do the "hatch" to the anchor locker or did that come with your boat when you acquired her. looks to be my next project
dan
rascal 145
ichard.hazlegrove at wachovia.com wrote:
A couple of comments to J Bergquist's plans to build a dodger from the
Sailrite kit.
When I purchased Quest about ten years ago, she was equipped with a
serviceable dodger on a well made stainless steel frame. After a few
years of patching, replacing the glass, and re-sewing seams, I obtained
a quote to replace the dodger that considered excessive. I decided to do
it myself using materials and an instructional video from Sailrite. What
takes them an 45 minutes on the video probably took me 70 plus hours of
work over the winter. Overall I am very pleased with the outcome but it's
a lot of work. There are few right angles, so much of the work involves
sewing seams with very precise compound curves. Tolerance must be less
than 1/8" or you get wrinkles. Much different than sewing slip covers. For
those of you who have a lot of down time over the winter and want to take
on something different it's actually fun. It probably doesn't make
economic sense to do it yourself but then again if we considered the time
value of our labor, I doubt any of us could afford these great boats. If
anybody is interested, I have some photos of various systems on Quest
that includes a few of the dodger. They can be found at:
http://www.photoworks.com/share/shareSignin.jsp?shareCode=ADB7962C1BD&cp=ems_shr_alb_pml&cb=PW
(It's a little easier to view if you hit the full screen button, then the
pause button and use the arrow buttons to advance the images. To
temporarily remove the play/pause screen from the image, move the cursor
outside of the picture frame.
Richard Hazlegrove
Quest 433
Mobjack Bay, VA.
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