[Rhodes22-list] Forward windows on R22 (oops here's the photo)
Mary Lou Troy
mtroy at atlanticbb.net
Sun Dec 3 12:05:39 EST 2023
On 12/3/2023 12:03 PM, Mary Lou Troy wrote:
> Here are the port covers on Fretless, taken some years ago. They are
> in their flat cover position. You can just see a fiberglass batten
> sticking out from under the lower edge. What looks like a snap in the
> middle of the lower edge is actually a rivet holding the batten to the
> cloth. What you can't see is a second set of snap posts just inboard
> of the posts at the lower corners of the cover. When the covers are in
> use as a mini-scoop for air with the ports open, the fiberglass batten
> is arched between these two posts and the cloth cover snapped down to
> these inner posts to hold it in place. We always said they looked like
> arched eyebrows but unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture. Hope
> this is helpful.
>
> Mary Lou
> ex Rhodes 22
> now Rosborough RF-246 Tara
>
> On 12/3/2023 11:32 AM, peter beckerman via Rhodes22-list wrote:
>> Roger, Those port covers sound like just the thing to save me the
>> trouble of draining the wells when I visit my boat after it rains
>> (ie. every weekend all summer long). If it's not too much trouble,
>> could you get some more photos of them in action once we get back
>> into sailing season. I'd love to see how the scoop function works so
>> I can make (or have made) a set of my own.
>> Thanks (again) Peter.
>> Ps. I epoxied my tiller handle yesterday per your instructions and
>> will give it a week or two under clamps to set up. So far everything
>> went very smoothly. Fingers crossed.
>
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