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Good Point! I guess I will hold off doing anything and think some more....
We'll be gone for 2 weeks tomorrow to chicago and points east...so i will
follow the thread..
Ken Silverman, poop-15 "vegan lorax", bothell, wa
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 Sukoshi1044@aol.com wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Mailing List maintainer
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> Hello fellow Potter 15ers:
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> Why don't you consider building up the curve on the coach roof to flat
> instead of cutting down the teak rails? This would allow the hatch slide to
> run in a flat chase. It may very well bind as bad with a curved teak rail as
> with the old 'form fit' aluminum one. I haven't gotten Sukoshi out from under
> her tarp yet this year, but will be considering making delrin slides <the
> black plastic Harken uses for their block cheeks/shieves/bearings> to replace
> the aluminum and figuring out the proper handling of the curved coachroof and
> the flat <but now worn after 20 years> hatch. Do the newer boats have a flat
> area formed in the fibreglass of the deck mold to minimize this or is there
> just more slop in the chase?
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> Bill de Ment P-15 #1044 'Sukoshi'
> Eagle, Idaho
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