South Coast Sailboats
Replaced top hatch slides
With time and age the original pop top slide guides had worn
out and cracked. I replaced these with new slide guides that I
had routed out of cedar two by fours. This worked very well, and
proved to be a reasonably good upgrade. These were very easy to
build, cost next to nothing.
Installed new grab bars on top of
the hatch cover slides
One of the most simple and yet very effective upgrades I had
made was to provide a pair of cabin top hand grips that are located
on the top of the cabin hatch cover slide guides. These grips
were fashioned out of cedar wood, mounted on top of the top of
the cabin hatch cover slide, and then secured using galvanized
3/8" lag bolts installed from inside the cabin. These grips
are very helpful in maneuvering my body around the top of the
cabin sole from the cotpit (in both directions). These were very
easy to build, cost next to nothing, and provide a great deal
of additional security when moving around front the cotpit to
the cabin sole or vice versa. (A couple of great suggestion)
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