Replacing Cabin Door
GraphComm Services (graphcom@whidbey.com)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:36:31 -0800
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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For what it's worth, on a previous boat, we had a dark blue plexiglass
cabin door, or actually 3 'boards' that fit into the slots. Each had a 45
degree bevel along the top/bottom edge slanting out to the cockpit for
water runoff. The top board had the hasp hardware for the lock mounted on a
sort of built up riser so that the hatch would overhang the boards and keep
water out of the cabin. This arrangement worked very well, providing a bit
of light down below, but with the dark blue color, it kept a goodly amount
of privacy as well.
You could also just drop in one or two to keep any slop from getting in
during a boisterous sail, and they worked as kiddie-gates to keep the young
ones (when we had them) down below while docking, etc. One great memory of
this boat was when my oldest daughter Sarah, who was about 5 years old at
the time, and I were spending the night aboard at the Oak Harbor Marina on
Whidbey Island - during a full moon... she gazed out at the moon shining
through the companionway door from her sleeping bag and asked with great
sincerity; "Dad, is that why they call it a 'blue moon'?".
I will consider this for our P19 when the time comes to replace the aging
mahogany door.
Tom & Valerie
P19 #352 Windsong
Whidbey Island, WA