[Public-List] Portholes

[Brian Zinser]

Rachel

I have hull #134 and opening forward ports were an option as I have the 
original bill of sale.  I am in my office and the invoice is at home, 
but I think it was an extra $20 or so dollars in 1965.

Does anyone know where I could get replacement seals for the opening 
ports? 

Brian Zinser
#134

wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 2008, at 4:30 PM, C.B. Currier wrote:
>
>> didn't know that any A30 came original with the small portlights as
>> portholes. you probably want to check that & see if a PO didn't 
>> retrofit.
>> then see if you can repair or replace.
>>
>>
> I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere (in my PO's paperwork?) that opening 
> ports were optional in the forward areas.  For example, my boat has 
> one opening port (in the head), and the other three are fixed.  It 
> think it was mentioned how a "feature" of the openers was that the 
> outside trim ring matched the non-openers in appearance (it does).
>
> One other note that supports this:  I was reading someone's refit 
> diary and they were saying "Huh, our notes show that the previous 
> owner of our boat replaced three of the forward ports but not four; 
> that's odd!"  They ended up with four opening ports, so my guess is 
> that the boat - like mine - was ordered with one opening port and so 
> that one was not replaced, but the other three were.
>
> Rachel
> 1967 Alberg 30, #221
>
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