[Rhodes22-list] Need to replace Hatch

[Michael D. Weisner]

Rob,

It was Stanley standard equipment back in 1981.  The leg is aluminum with a 
rubber stopper foot and the top fits into a wooden circular retainer in the 
underside of the table (originally the outside top of the hatch door.)

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

From: "Lowe, Rob" Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:37 AM
> Mike,
> Tell me a bit more about this table leg if you will.  Something you
> rigged up yourself? - rob
>
>
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> Weisner
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> 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
>
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