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sdaly66
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Initially Posted - 09/08/2003 : 12:47:53

I'm thinking of making a screen for my companionway. Making a trapezoidal frame with screen for when the companionway is closed but I don't necessarily want to put up the pop top and canvas.

Has anyone done this? Have any advice?

This site is a GREAT resource full of VERY helpful folks.

250 WB 1996 Hull #205

Thank you all.

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 09/08/2003 : 13:51:41

Shawn,

Remembering the principle that everything on a boat needs to have a place where it lives without being obnoxious to the cramped quarters. I'm thinking that a framed screen is overkill.

Here's what has worked very well for me over many years of cruising during Black Fly, Mosquito and May Fly conditions on the Great Lakes. A cot cover net screen was bought from the Army Navy store. It is simply draped over the open companionway and by lifting open the hatch lid and lowering on the screening to hold it under the hatch. The screen is full enough then to blouse over the winches and drape over the full open companionway. This forms a slightly droopy screen which I think helps.

Oscar suggest that the little vermin are drawn to the carbon dioxide which we exhale... if the path to that seems apparent to the little bugger, he will spend the whole night trying to find the shortest path to it and will be defeated. Small holes around the perimeter are rarely found. This setup allows very easy movement in and out of the boat, just lifting the screen. In the morning, the screen bunches up into a very small ball and finds its home in the port mesh hammock.

The forward hatch has a similar simple rigged screen which was made during a desperate hour but yet survives. A heavy copper wire was commandeered to form a frame. A piece of screen was cut from the surplus of the companionway screen and using strips of duck tape centered on the wire, the screen laid within and the duck tape folded over to complete the hem. The break in the wire was planned at the point of the hatch brace and a small slit made in the screen. This simply lays on deck. Small openings around the perimeter again, seem to be ignored by the vermin determined to take a more direct approach thru the center area of the screen. In the morning... the wire is folded in half to reduce the size and stowed behind the mesh hammock.

More rigid frames would require more storage space... and free space on board is prime real estate.

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sdaly66
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Response Posted - 09/08/2003 : 15:41:03

Thanks Arlyn,

More great ideas for my use.

I appreciate it.

This site is a GREAT resource full of VERY helpful folks.

250 WB 1996 Hull #205

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 09/08/2003 : 15:59:59

We made a companionway screen the same size as the hatch that is foldable. We have a rigid top & bottom w/ screen in between tapered to fit the space. We can fold it accordian style & store it easily.

Cathy
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Kirk McKay
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Response Posted - 09/09/2003 : 10:28:17

The previous owner of my boat had a two piece folding screen made that has a wodden frame that just slides into the slots for the regular companionway boards. I've seen them advertised in the back of some sailing mags. It really takes up very little room in the boat when not in use, I keep it under the smaller side of the quarter berth in my 25...

Kirk

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PZell
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Response Posted - 09/09/2003 : 16:25:18

Don't overnite much, but on a recent overnight cruise I just
hauled along one of those little adjustable screens that you would
use under your window at home. Slid the sliding hatch back and
adjusted the screen across it. We were up the Petaluma River. No
bugs and no condensation from two people sleeping inside. Simple.

Paul C25FK Sparky
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sailgal
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Response Posted - 09/09/2003 : 22:54:02

Guess I had too much time on my hands, but the "no See-ums" we have around mangroves in Flordia were too much! Took a less than an hour and I made a companionway door screen, yes it takes up space but I like it. Slides right in the door slot and stores in the same space when the starboard door is in use<img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d729b3127cce8e4bdc130d540000001510" border=0><img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d729b3127cce8e4bd3d7cc3f0000003510" border=0>

Suzie, Tropical Sleigh
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frog0911
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Response Posted - 09/10/2003 : 22:00:55

This thread reminded me of an article in one of the old Sail Mags. about a screen that when you are finished you take it apart by removing 3 dowels and roll it up with the dowels inside then stuff in a crack somewhere. The cost of this set up looks to be about $6-10 depending on the screen you buy. If interested send me an EM and I will send the article to you.

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