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markolito
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Initially Posted - 04/28/2003 :  11:52:55  Show Profile
A couple showers came through south florida and the mosquitos are starting to pick up again. I went out and bought some vail material to use as mosquito net for the boat. I need to cut it up and make panels for all the hatches and wanted to know if any of you had ideas for how to make them. What should i use to "shape" each piece? i am gonna attach the pieces with velcro..

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-marco

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 04/28/2003 :  12:36:54  Show Profile
Marco - First, make sure that you get the extra-fine netting that will also keep out no-see-ums. Those nasty little biters can get through ordinary mosquito netting. I got extra fine mosquito netting from a local army-navy surplus store, and it wasn't expensive.

Secondly, I made a net for my main hatch that was just a long rectangular shape, with 3/8" nylon rope around the perimeter of it. It lays over the open hatch and hangs down to the cockpit floor. At the forward-most end of the rectangle, I attached two pieces of light line, so I can tie the top corners of it to the grab rails, to hold it in place. The weight of the 3/8" rope is enough to keep it from flopping around in all but strong winds. In strong winds, I insert a hatchboard or two.

For the forward hatch, I cut a piece of rip-stop nylon that was a little larger than the hatch itself. Then I sewed mosquito netting around three sides of it, so that, when the hatch is open, the netting would cover it, and hang onto the deck. Then I sewed 3/8" rope around the part that lays on the deck. Again, the weight of the rope holds them in place. They work great, and I later realized that they will work, not just on my C-25, but on most boats.

Steve Milby "Captiva Wind" C-25 T/FK #2554

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 04/28/2003 :  20:23:28  Show Profile  Visit Leon Sisson's Homepage
marco,

I just finished fabricating screens similar to what Steve Milby described.

I draped the material over each open hatch, marked the hem with chalk, added a couple of inches all around, and cut it out. I then sewed a tunnel, or tube hem, around the edges using that extra couple of inches of fabric.

For the forehatch, in the hollow hem I ran a string with fishing weights tied every few inches to hold it down. I also folded and marked the excess material where the cloth forms sort of a pup tent over the open hatch. I then sewed along the fold, and cut off the excess.

Across the front of the companionway screen, I inserted a thin flexible fiberglass tentpole just long enough for the ends to tuck under my handrails. At the aft top of the screen, where it needs make a nearly right angle bend from horizontal to near vertical, I cut a piece of small PVC pipe, long enough to rest on top of the slide guides, and folded and sewed another tube in the material to slide the pipe into. At the aft bottom edge, another short piece of PVC pipe in the hem to weight it down.

This all took less than a day and next to no sewing skills (and it looks it!)<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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markolito
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Response Posted - 04/29/2003 :  10:03:00  Show Profile
thanks for the help..
time to get cranking on them ;)

-m


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