[Rhodes22-list] Need to replace Hatch

[Lowe, Rob]

Mike,
Tell me a bit more about this table leg if you will.  Something you
rigged up yourself? - rob


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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Michael D.
Weisner
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Need to replace Hatch

Greg,

Welcome to the R22 list and congratulations on your new project.
Hopefully 
you will find some time to actually sail her.

Most of us have replaced our plywood hatches at least once.  I am on my 
third wooden one on my '81.  After replacing the teak veneer plywood
version 
twice with the same, I found that one could do a better job with birch 
veneer, stained and finished with spar varnish.  The varnish stands up
to 
the weather much better than the teak veneer ever did.  I also have a 
version made of white 1/2 inch "starboard", a fairly expensive nearly 
indestructible composite material that doesn't look as nice as the
stained 
wood, in my opinion.

The hinge not only kept the two pieces together in storage but also 
permitted the hatch to be folded at an angle (almost 90 degrees) so that
the 
upper portion was supported by a leg to the cockpit floor, to function
as a 
serving table from the galley.  If you do not desire this, there is no 
reason why it couldn't be two pieces.

Mike
s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)
       Nissequogue River, NY