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Strip: Hatch cover
By:Terry Hanson
Date: 9/25/2003, 5:58 pm

Driving home from a week in the Queen Charlottes ( see trip board) we found that a hatch cover was missing . the bow hatch of a Great Auk. I doubt that it will ever be found and I'm not about to re trace the journey of 17 hrs...

Lesson learned --- always hook up a tether of some sort.!!

So now a new one must be made. Hard to make the strips look like the old ones so I think I'll use similar but different wood and out line the outer edge of the new hatch with a contrasting thin border. ??

Any body have any ideas to make a new hatch that would look good.??

Regards Terry

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Hatch cover
Terry Hanson -- 9/25/2003, 5:58 pm
Re: Strip: Hatch cover
Terry Hanson -- 9/27/2003, 12:56 am
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Chip Sandresky -- 9/26/2003, 12:30 pm
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Jim Reid -- 9/26/2003, 6:26 am
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Tom Bastiansen -- 9/26/2003, 2:50 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/25/2003, 7:12 pm
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mike allen -- 9/26/2003, 1:42 am