Rick, The wooden frame sounds like a good idea and I’m hoping that was done with my model. Short of drilling and cutting into either the headliner portion of the interior liner or the deck laminate, there is no way for me to tell. Is the frame something that can be inspected on your model?
If it were not for ruining the base frame on the main cabin hatch I would still be using the original A-H hatch. I had them completely rebuilt when I first bought the boat. Best, Dave Godwin 1982 C&C 37 - Ronin Reedville - Chesapeake Bay Ronin’s Overdue Refit <http://roninrebuild.blogspot.com/> > On Sep 27, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Rick Brass via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > My mid 70s 38 (which has similar construction to the 37, AFIK) has a wooden > frame laminated between the deck and the headliner around the foredeck hatch. > That also appears to be true for the cabin top hatch, and was also true for a > friends early 80s 29-2. > > On both my 38 and the 29-2, the rebuilt or replacement hatch was secured with > #12x1” or 1 ¼” oval head screws driven into the wood, using butyl for sealant > (3M tape bought at my local auto parts store). > > On the 38, I reinstalled the A&A hatch after rebuilding it. On the 29-2 we > used a current production Lewmar (a low profile 50 series, IIRC) to replace > the OEM Superhatch. So in both cases the original holes lined up for the > hatch frame being installed > > Rick Brass > Washington, NC > >
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