P19 hatch woes

Eric Johnson (ej@tx3.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:10:28 -0800


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Well, I emailed you all a while back about my P19 hatch woes - that the
original one wasn't symmetrical, so my copy didn't look right.

So i built a symmetrical prototype out of pressboard, and planned to re-cut
the sliding hatch.

I'm glad I used pressboard instead of another $30 piece of marine ply. The
symmetrical one wasn't going to work at all.

It turns out, as one of you suggested, that the hatch is asymmetrical on
purpose. One side of the cabin is taller than the other!!!! The asymmeteric
curve of the hatch makes it not appear that way, so I have to cut my new
hatch that way for it to look "right".

Weird huh?