So the new hatch has arrived...and is currently on the dining room table - i don't know whether that's better or worse than when the new sail was on the lounge room floor?? Probably best that it ends up on the boat ASAP!!
Fitting the new hatch isn't going to be straight forward, but it should be too hard either. The deck in that area is curved, and therefore so is the hatch opening...obviously! There is also a lip where the old hatch cover fits over. And the existing hole is bigger than the hatch - and before you ask, i couldn't go a bigger hatch - not enough room. So the plan...
I'm proposing to trim the front and back of the lip slightly to start the level plain and construct a timber from which will sit on/in the existing opening and into which the hatch will fit. The frame will be screwed onto the deck to gain some structural integrity and trimmed/smoothed to a nice shape.
Then the issue is...do i fibreglass over the timber frame and exposed section of old lip to create a nice smooth surface or do i just use an epoxy mix...
I think i might chat to a few people in the know...
I'll take some pic's to show what I'm trying to say...
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