Hatches, hatches, hatches and non-slip deck paint :-)

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hi everyone

i'm tony this is s vitapatcher recording

as i say nearly every week a cruising

sailboat

ah and i i'm happy this week

and perhaps as a little comment a short

comment to be made there's

you know some weeks you feel like you've

done well other weeks

somehow you haven't got as much done as

you wished

this week i'm happy

quite a bit done i think anyhow we'll

start

right here on the aft deck because

if we look this way you will see it's

very

nice and sadly very expensive shore

power connection

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so

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now

that goes on there

all right okay

good now we're just going to slide that

onto position like that

all right okay this one comes up here

over there like that

and that is going to go roughly speaking

in there

so

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it's good

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master volt socket then there with that

with the

suitable plug on the end of the cable it

goes in there and locates

locks in position obviously the cover

comes down and locks it shut

there's a and what i was most impressed

with is how

deep notice i can show you how deep um

trouble is the powers on to them

how far in that plug goes you see our

that in

in that is now look right pull that out

first it's fairly stiff see that it goes

in

four to five centimeters almost two

inches of contact

which is very very significant and it's

good as you can probably tell there's a

good stiff

fit in there there we go locked in

position

so very nice that was the first job

and i followed that up on the arctic

here with these

but these three plastic hatches

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hey

in sealed in position these two are just

into storage for bits and bobs you know

binoculars gloves whatever

um the one up here kerry is through the

diesel day tank you you might have

noticed

something different once out here and

that is that the half deck is now

completely painted i've got the non-slip

patches down here and on the raised deck

there

15 centimeters off the deck rails

and then from the hatch turtle we angled

across 20 centimeters off of it

at the near end here we're 18

centimeters off i do believe we are

yes

um

um

yes

oh

two big patches on the rose deck two

naturally slightly smaller patches on

the aft deck due to the fact

that they are thinking smaller um i used

the

same brand that i've used for everything

the epoxy the paint everything i all get

from the same supplies as

pink and non-slip and i'm so far

entirely happy with it it's got a good

non-slip surface to it it's a satin

it's not glass it's satin finish whereas

the around the outside of the panel is

gloss

then i've got two coats

of gloss paint on the on the sides here

bull works

coaches sides

so

no doubt we'll need another coat before

launch but but it'll do for now

collect lost um yeah

quite nice i think this is is the

lazarette hatch and

you know i've been uh on it for a while

um

and it's now actually approaching being

finished

i wanted to change the design a little

bit just to make it

more waterproof so i it's a bit sticky

i've just finished it but um i'll put

this second

layer around that so it comes down onto

the hatch and then

around the outside of the hatch frame as

well

three would be probably

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uh

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scriptures

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hey

looks like that

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so

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very nice

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and while we're on the topic of adapting

hatches

this is the sliding hatch for the main

entrance hatch

i've done two things to this obviously

just been vanished again so wet and

sticky

but one of the things that bothered me a

little bit was

the the purse bricks that's going in

here

still got the protective cover on it but

but with the protective covers on it

actually sits

a fraction higher than my than my rebate

and i didn't

want that's okay on the edges it doesn't

matter but in the middle i didn't want

water collecting

in the middle so i had various options

but i decided perhaps the

best way to go was just to raise the

middle strut

up a little bit so i've put

roughly a centimeter of extra mahogany

on top of that

um to bring it up so there's no lower

gap in the middle there

obviously i had to cut a little bit out

of the hatch turtle to clear it but i've

done that and

it's just working well and the other

thing i need to do

there are some screws through here that

need to plug in so i cut the

half inch plugs and pop them in there

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to clear that bite

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yeah should do the job

and that guys is about it for this week

thank you for watching

you know what's it than that and you

know what's it and that and the bell and

all the things and see you next time

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bye

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so

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hmm

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