[Rhodes22-list] Beckson opening portlights

[Mary Lou Troy]

Beckson has (or I should say had as I haven't looked lately) lots of 
replacement parts for their ports. If the body of the port is sound, I'd 
look for those. I think Defender and SailboatOwners.com have them and 
who knows who else.
https://www.beckson.com/component.html

Mary Lou
ex Rhodes 22
now Rosborough RF-246
Tara
Rock Hall, MD

On 5/4/2023 9:43 AM, Peter via Rhodes22-list wrote:
>    I have a new to me 86 rhodes which I purchased with a broken dog assembly on one of the opening portlights.  The previous owner told me that he bumped it while stowing the table and it broke.  Prior to that it did not leak.  I devised a fix which has not been entirely successful, but which I think will ultimately work.
>    Recently we've had a bit of rain, and I've been seeing some leaking from the other opening port.  Thinking that there might be some dirt in the seals, I started opening the port to wipe down the seal and the dog assembly crumbled into my hand.
>    I'm wondering if anyone else has had an issue with the Beckson portlight plastic becoming brittle and failing unexpectedly. I'm guessing these are original to the boat and that nearly 40 years of uv has taken its toll.  Attached are some photos of the 1st portlight failure and version 2.0 of the fix
>
> Thanks,
>      Peter
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