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Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
By:Bob Johns
Date: 2/19/2012, 4:53 pm

: I did the same basic thing putting built up wood hatches on two
: Yost SOF's now, works fine, adds a bunch of weight though which
: I have a problem with, specially on such a light weight boat.

: Put one set on a friend's 17' Sea Tour last year and another on the
: rounded bottom Sea Bee that I did a few years ago. On them they
: have plywood hatches on plywood sub decks and plywood recessed
: rings. Both of those have bulkheads too btw.

This sounds interesting, Bill. How did you secure your hatches in place?

~Bob

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round hatches on a SOF *PIC*
Kirk Fredericks -- 2/18/2012, 7:32 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Jeff Horton -- 2/19/2012, 10:45 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Kirk Fredericks -- 2/19/2012, 10:53 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Jeff Horton -- 2/20/2012, 10:06 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2012, 4:46 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Bob Johns -- 2/19/2012, 4:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2012, 5:23 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: How to install SeaLect 8" round
Bob Johns -- 2/19/2012, 9:04 pm