The acrylic lens is crazed, and the gaskets are hard and don't seal well.
The bed would be soaked after a hard rain, or you take a wave over the bow in heavy seas.
Tried to get a local company in Napanee (Atkins & Hoyle), but they wanted $700 plus tax and shipping, and did not have a comfort factor with Lewmar hatches.
In February, I shipped my hatch to Select Plastics (Hatch Masters) in Conneticut.
Cost me $26CAN to ship it.
They replaced the lens with some smoked acrylic plexiglass and put in some new gasket material.
Took almost 8 weeks as they are busy in the off season and have a backlog.
Got it back today and it looks excellent.
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| Protective paper on it. |
Look great, well worth the $319US to get it done.
I took the hatch over to Roula at Dreamcast Canvas for her to pattern a sunbrella cover to keep the sunshine out and give us a little privacy in the v-birth when at the dock.
I have not been able to take the cover off of Still Time without the hatch.
The only boat in my row that has not removed their cover.
This weekend, so we can start working on the cleaning and waxing the hull before launch, which is the week after that.
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