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Split the difference
By:mike allen
Date: 8/12/2009, 2:31 pm
In Response To: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK* *Pic* (Kurt Maurer)

I agree with your and Etienne's sentiments about the incongruity of rubber hatches on wooden kayaks.

To me, they look like sewer covers or garbage can covers - and so they destroy the clean lines of the kayak - especially wooden ones.

So what about an experiment?
Rubber covers are flexible (even tho we only see them on completely level rims) so would they work on rims that follow the curved section (or form) contour of that part of the deck??

Maybe lay up a rim and see. And if so, then depress the rim by 1/4" and keep the wood deck cutout for an aesthetic snap cover over the whole unsightly morass.

Or take a slightly route for slightly less curvature and depress a little more and split the diff betw a level and a curved rim.

But if you reject all that, do not throw away the cover(s) - you just might come back to your senses in the future and will be able to return to a nice clean serene deck, heh heh.

-mick

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK* *Pic*
Kurt Maurer -- 8/11/2009, 7:54 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *Pic*
Andy Waddington -- 8/23/2009, 4:24 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?------We
Kurt Maurer------WebKitFormBoundaryeAaza+mQo4GAZ4F -- 8/23/2009, 7:31 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?------We *Pic*
Andy Waddington -- 8/24/2009, 12:50 pm
Mold your own hatch rims....
John Caldeira -- 8/13/2009, 2:38 am
Re: Mold your own hatch rims....
Kurt Maurer -- 8/13/2009, 9:30 am
Re: Trolling bait *Pic*
Andy Waddington -- 8/24/2009, 1:07 pm
Re: Trolling Bait *LINK*
John Caldeira -- 8/14/2009, 11:03 pm
Re: Trolling Bait
Kurt Maurer -- 8/14/2009, 11:13 pm
Re: Trolling Bait
Mike Savage -- 8/15/2009, 1:57 pm
Re: Minicel
Etienne Muller -- 8/24/2009, 2:22 pm
Re: Minicel
Mike Savage -- 8/24/2009, 4:19 pm
Re: Trolling Bait *LINK*
Glenn -- 8/15/2009, 9:22 pm
Re: Trolling Bait
Mike Savage -- 8/16/2009, 6:23 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Pawistik -- 8/12/2009, 4:29 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *Pic*
Dave Houser -- 8/12/2009, 4:18 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Kurt Maurer -- 8/12/2009, 6:51 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK*
bruce tunell -- 8/13/2009, 8:47 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Kurt Maurer -- 8/13/2009, 9:28 am
Split the difference
mike allen -- 8/12/2009, 2:31 pm
Re: Split the difference------WebKitFormBoundaryT+
Greg H------WebKitFormBoundaryT+fy9rB62Uj0EFRO -- 8/13/2009, 8:27 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Etienne Muller -- 8/12/2009, 8:05 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Bill Hamm -- 8/12/2009, 1:34 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Kurt Maurer -- 8/12/2009, 9:57 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Bill Hamm -- 8/12/2009, 3:27 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Robert N Pruden -- 8/12/2009, 4:35 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Kurt Maurer -- 8/11/2009, 7:58 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK*
bruce tunell -- 8/12/2009, 3:19 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Oliver Bloch -- 8/11/2009, 9:12 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK*
Oliver Bloch -- 8/12/2009, 10:12 am
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK*
Mike Dangelo -- 8/12/2009, 1:53 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK*
wwfloyd -- 8/12/2009, 5:31 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Bill Hamm -- 8/13/2009, 5:30 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI?
Bill Hamm -- 8/13/2009, 2:36 pm
Re: Strip: Kajak Sport Hatches for New OI? *LINK*
wwfloyd -- 8/13/2009, 3:26 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 8/12/2009, 7:01 pm