Hatch Lip

[bbh57]

Rebuilding a 23 floor, whats the best way to put a lip for a floor hatch to rest on .

[Scott]

Welcome to the site bb!!

As far as rebuilding ...Is the deck going to be completely new ??Do you have anything old that you can model after?

You may want to consider putting a gutter in also... Capt Chuck did that so hopefully he will chime in.

[bbh57]

Its down to the stringers putting in new 3/4 marine ply. Still trying to decide if I should make a tank hatch or just close in the new tank

[strick]

Make a mold. I would make a mold for the entire floor with built recessed areas for the hatch.

strick

[hermco]

Marine ply is still wood. If I had done all of the work to remove the entire deck I would consider buying or making foam core floor panels that will never rot. You can make a hatch lip mold and add where you want. The hatches are easily custom made to fit. I just covered the tank on my 20' with Divinycell floor panels that I made and added recesses for the tank access plates,made a hatch and reciever mold for the bilge access that I modified for the new anchor locker access.
http://www.hermco.net/gallery2.htm

[thedink9]

HermCo

Can you expand this a bit ? How would you go about making a in deck lip mold? Rich

[hermco]

Many ways to do it but here a couple,

[bbh57]

I was preparing to use a composite board but I was concered about not being able to secure the T-Top to the floor properly with glass and foam stringers below the deck I convinced myself that doubleing the plywood in the holding points would be better.