Mark
P-14 #202, Apres Vous
Silver Springs, NV
hlg@pacbell.net wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> J. Tauber wrote:
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> >Interesting in that your cabin wall already has plywood in it. Is that the
> >stock version or did the original owner install it?
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> It's original, but is decrepit and I plan to replace it. I've already
> replaced the external panels, but I need to replace the whole bulkhead,
> which doesn't appear difficult. My first generation Potter has a lot of
> wood in it. All the bulkheads are wood, and there are wooden doublers to
> stiffen the fiberglass cabintop and cabin sole (the bottom of the hull).
> The bunk deck is all wood and was rotted by rainwater. I had to rebuild it.
> The transom is plywood encased in fiberglass. The lazarette is fiberglass
> with wooden doublers. The cabin does not have an inner liner. The inside of
> the hull, including the cabin, was painted a mottled gray, a kind of paint
> that I seem to remember was called Zolatone. The interior is more tugboat
> than yacht.
>
> >The only wood besides
> >the V-birth on my boat was the triangular pieces of plywood that are
> >laminated with fiberglass facing outward on either side of the cockpit that
> >seem to both stiffen the cabin wall as well as act as a splashguard for the
> >cockpit. When I saw TJ's Mark I P14 I noticed that it was simplified (a nice
> >word for made cheaper) by using 2 pieces of stainless tubing. It really took
> >something away from the appearance.
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> On mine that splashguard/fairing is actually a continuation of the
> fiberglass cabin side. On the next generation gunter rigs they made it a
> separate piece as on yours (but I don't remember it being plywood; yours
> may have been replaced). That was followed by the pieces of tubing on the
> Mk I and nothing on the Mk II. I like the looks and feel of the fairing on
> mine, and I haven't felt a need for the cockpit rails that are a popular
> option on the later models. The only problem I had was when I would have
> liked to have routed the genoa sheets through that area. The Mk I tubings
> look like they might be useful as handholds
>
> > I also had a poorly fitted plywood
> >lazarette hatch, which I have replaced with a much better fitting piece of
> >marine plywood with a perko latch. TJ's had the original fiberglass hatch,
> >not much to look at, but far easier to maintain.
>
> My lazarette hatch is fiberglass over plywood. It is substantially built
> and looks nice but is poorly designed. It is warped and impossible to
> seal. Any rain flows freely around it to fill up the lazarette. There is no
> channel around the edge to keep water out. It has a hole for a latch but
> has never had one. I secure it with a bungee. The lazarette is designed for
> stowing a Seagull such as the Forty Plus that came with my Potter.
>
> Harry Gordon
> P14 #234, Manatee
> Mountain View, CA