Cabin Door issues ....

[cSickNick]

Have you Seafari owners or other cabin door owners noticed the amount of flexing in the corners of the door frame under heavy use. Even before mounting my hardtop, a tradeoff which I know adds more stress, the door frame corners were cracking and door would not close.

I spent a little effort this year in squaring off the door and frame, adding more glass in the inside corners. So far so good until I left the door home during comm bass season. The corner popped again(yeah it was a rough day ) outside the added glass areas at the next weakest spot. It is apparent to me that with the door in/closed, it helps to hold that whole door frame area together.

The Seafari glass door frame is part of the top that(from what i see) is only tied to the inner liner with screws under the 2 teak strips on each side just above the footrests. It looks like some putty was on the inside of cabin near the gunnels, but that’s all cracked and brittle doing nothing now. Also, the guage panel fiberglass area has been cut all out over the years, so not much glass left under the starboard guage panel i installed.

So, curious on what you guys think it needs to beef up. I am no expert, but to me it seems like the door frame on the top needs to be glasses to the inner liner anyplace possible to make it all flex as one.

Any thoughts?

- Nick