[Public-List] New Hatches

Tue May 12 04:12:18 PDT 2009

Jim,

Jatoba looks interesting. I'd not payed much attention to that before
now.  From some online flooring store:

"The origin is from southern Mexico, throughout Central America and
the West Indies, to northern Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru. The tree may
grow to a height of 130 ft with trunk diameters of 5 to 6 ft; usually
less than 100 ft high with diameters of 2 to 4 ft. Boles are well
formed, often clear for 40 to 80 ft, and basally swollen or buttressed
in large trees. Jatoba is sometimes compared to mahogany. It is not as
porous as mahogany but harder and denser, making it a good
alternative. With its inherent beauty, rich coloring, and extreme
hardness, this species is understandably one of our most popular
exotic woods."

"Durability:
Moderately durable to fungi, dry wood borers and termites, but
non-durable when a high proportion of sapwood is present. Very
resistant to termites and extremely resistant to preservative
treatment.

Laboratory evaluations rate the wood very resistant to brown-rot and
white-rot fungi; actual field exposure trials also rate the wood as
very durable. Heartwood is also rated very resistant to dry-wood
termites; little resistance to marine borers"

I'd like to build a cockpit floor grate..this might be a good wood to use.

-Jeff

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:56 AM,  <jimcherry at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> As a point of interest, a friend of mine introduced me to a type of wood called Jotoba. I'm not a 'wood expert' or even a very good carpenter so consider this from that perspective.
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> Its realtively easy to find in almost any size of board or plank at most specialty lumber stores. It reasonably resembles the colour and grain of teak at about half the price. ......still costly but less so. Its a very dense wood and reputed to be oily enough to withstand exterior use although I can't personally vouch for that. I've used it inside and out but the exterior pieces haven't been on long enough to be able to judge their durability.
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> The wood is heavy and dense but can be manipulated easily enough using common power or even hand tools.....but it is heavy so use it sparingly.
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> For what its worth.....
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> Jim C   Topaz #639
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>> From: alberg30nh at gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 22:45:43 -0400
>> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] New Hatches
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Which hatches??
>>
>> I replaced my lazarette & aft deck hatches last winter. Don't know if
>> they were original to 1965 or not but they were in rough shape too.
>> I looked around and couldn't find a good source for teak. Some
>> specialty lumber distributors had some, but not much, and good pieces
>> were rare. I ended up using African Mahogany, it was easy to find
>> good wood, and at a reasonable (for boat stuff) price. Are you
>> looking to use plywood for it's stability? Strength? The thing I don't
>> like about plywood in situations like this is that if the finish is
>> compromised, it doesn't take much water to lift the surface veneer on
>> the ply. I'm not sure it saves much time or money in building.
>>
>> I think teak would be great if you can find it. I don't know if you
>> have much for wood working tools, I don't but was happy enough using
>> simple splined joints using a table saw and epoxy glue.
>>
>> So far, they've help up well..having seen the light of day only to
>> take these pictures! Hope to launch soon!!
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>> http://picasaweb.google.com/fongemie/DeckNearlyFinished?feat=directlink
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>> -Jeff
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>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jonathan Budington
>> <jon at globalprinting.com> wrote:
>> > I've decided to rebuild the hatches on my boat, as they are 1965
>> > original and in terrible shape.  I was planning to use solid teak for
>> > the frames, and teak marine plywood for the tops.  I did see the images
>> > of John Graves hatch replacement on the Alberg site (beautiful job); he
>> > used solid teak for the tops.  Is the marine plywood a bad idea?
>> >
>> > Jon Budington
>> >
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