Austin
TX
Boat Name:
Model/Year: 1974
Hull No.
Hailing Port: |
 06/18/2004 4:12 PM Pacific Time
Has anyone considered replacing the aluminum windows with opening ones? Do they even exist?
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Chip Lee
Utica, NY
Boat Name: Martha Pearl
Model/Year: 1980 C-22
Hull No. #9742
Hailing Port: Black River Bay, NY |
06/19/2004 7:56 AM Pacific Time
Austin, I've thought about it a lot, but unless you want to cover the opening and start over again, I don't think anyone makes an opening port to fit our vintage.
One other thing I've considered is adding some rectangular opening ports forward of the main cabin ports. West Marine has several types that look like they could fit. Pages 568-569 in this year's catalog.
Chip Lee |
Joseph Schuler
Princeton, NJ
Boat Name: Cats' Feet
Model/Year: 1971
Hull No. K26
Hailing Port: Raritan Bay, NJ; RYC |
06/22/2004 10:22 AM Pacific Time
I saw a boat (not a C22) that had cut holes for small round opening portholes INTO it's existing non-opening windows. They must have had lexan windows instead of our glass. I won't say that it looked nice, but it seemed to work for them.
I've been thinking about adding a single opening port to the center of that slanted portion of the deck forward of the mast. We seem to catch quite a few brief squalls when we sail, and it would be nice to be able to duck inside and see forward through said porthole, steering by Skip Meisch's method. What do you folks think of that? |
Chip Lee
Utica, NY
Boat Name: Martha Pearl
Model/Year: 1980 C-22
Hull No. #9742
Hailing Port: Black River Bay, NY |
06/23/2004 6:11 AM Pacific Time
Sounds like a decent idea, Joseph, but can you install a flat port in such a curved area as the forward edge of the cabin trunk? I'm thinking you might have to build a flattened surface out from there in order to install the port.
Thoughts?
Chip Lee |
Joseph Schuler
Princeton, NJ
Boat Name: Cats' Feet
Model/Year: 1971
Hull No. K26
Hailing Port: Raritan Bay, NJ; RYC |
06/24/2004 8:24 AM Pacific Time
The thought that I might need to build a flat section to bed the port is what has stopped me so far. I was thinking that with a small, 4 or 5 inch round port I could just shape a piece of Mahogany to fit the curve, and install the port on top of that...still trying to find solutions...
Joseph |
Chip Lee
Utica, NY
Boat Name: Martha Pearl
Model/Year: 1980 C-22
Hull No. #9742
Hailing Port: Black River Bay, NY |
06/25/2004 7:06 AM Pacific Time
I'm very late getting my boat in the water this year, but I'm hoping to do it this weekend. The boat is 90 miles away, so I can't look at it right now.
I'll try to look at the forward area of the cabin trunk to see what might be done.
Chip |
Greg Guenther
Belleville, IL
Boat Name: Magnificat
Model/Year: 1970
Hull No. 473
Hailing Port: Belleville, IL |
07/06/2006 7:52 PM Pacific Time
My '70 has two rectangular opening ports in the front slanted part of the cabin. They have a special drain to dain water from the well that the port becomes when installed at an angle. They never leaked until I pulled them to re-paint the boat and now I have a slight leak in the port window. I am going to pull it again and try to re-bed it one more time. They work just fine for air. The PO also installed two opening ports in the hull near the bow. I keep these closed on windy days to keep water out of the V bearth.
Greg |
