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Nautiduck
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Initially Posted - 11/22/2006 :  19:15:22  Show Profile
I'm sure someone must have solved this already. I find it difficult to hold on to the main hatchboard and try to put it in its holder. The darn thing is heavy and slick. So, have any of you put handles on your hatchboard? How many? Where? Got a photo?

Thanks and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!


We cannot direct the winds but we can adjust our sails.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 11/22/2006 :  19:32:33  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Randy, my post about the handles is archived, you can search for it in the C250 archives.
Here's what it looked like before I added the smoked plastic 'skylight'
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Paul
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 11/22/2006 :  19:32:51  Show Profile
Hi Randy,
I got tired of dropping that hatch too. I made a trip to Home Depot and found some nice SS handles they use to replace kitchen drawer handles. I only bought one and installed it vertically on the hatch so that when the hatch sits in the holder the handle is up (easy to grab). I suppose two might have looked better but the one works just fine. Sorry I don't have any pictures of mine installed, but it looks like the arched one in the picture.
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Response Posted - 11/23/2006 :  06:34:12  Show Profile  Visit Turk's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by britinusa</i>
<br />Randy, my post about the handles is archived, you can search for it in the C250 archives.
Here's what it looked like before I added the smoked plastic 'skylight'
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Paul
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That's exactly what mine looks like also. Randy, don't forget to add a little 4200 to seal them holes.
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 11/23/2006 :  08:19:46  Show Profile
... and you will need to counter sink the screw heads on the back side of the hatch so they don't scratch up your bulkhead.
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Response Posted - 11/23/2006 :  09:23:34  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
While at it, consider moving the hatchboard stowage up and forward so that it allows better use of the that area on the port side of the lower step.
Here's a pic of the A/C bulkhead that I installed, it shows the vacant space where I removed the hatchboard stowage bits n pieces (wonder what the correct names for those bits are?)
The new location makes it much easier to stow and retrieve the hatchboard from the cockpit.

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/23/2006 :  11:09:33  Show Profile
Thanks all! Great advice. I just ordered two of these white handles:

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=33546&storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001

Paul, you got AC?? A luxury 250!

Randy
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kevinmac
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Response Posted - 11/23/2006 :  15:08:28  Show Profile
Where do you put the hatch when you remove it? I always reach down and stow it immediately where you removed the "bits". What do you do with it instead?
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Response Posted - 11/23/2006 :  20:53:31  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Kevin, I'll take a pic on the weekend.
Basically, the hatchboard is on the same orginal bulkhead, but it up higher and further fwd.

Paul
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frog0911
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Response Posted - 11/24/2006 :  08:18:15  Show Profile
Kevin, if you have a Homey Depot near, cancel the WM order and get the same ones from HD for 1/3 the price.
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 11/24/2006 :  08:43:47  Show Profile
I believe I paid about $3 for my SS one at HD.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/24/2006 :  13:08:12  Show Profile
But the Home Depot ones don't say **marine** in the description.

You guys are going to sink your boats with all this HD stuff. Randy
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Response Posted - 11/25/2006 :  16:58:20  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Here's the pic of my hatchboards new stowage.
Note it is raised and forward of the standard position.
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Paul.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/25/2006 :  17:50:24  Show Profile
I am REALLY liking that plexi window. I couldn't find it in the archives. Is there a thread on how you did that?
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Response Posted - 11/26/2006 :  06:33:58  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Not sure if I posted about it. It was one of the many things going on while doing the A/C work.
I just Cut a piece of plexiglass, then routed a hole the same size half the thinkness of the hatchboard, then used 3m 5200 to glue it in.

Paul
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