Day 120, 1/13/24 Small Companion way steps, hatches disapointment, small things 8 hours

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Interior 

Companionway steps refinished, new teak mounting blocks cut and finished.

Engine room access door (over the steps) completely rebuilt.

 Small Lexan 0.25" thich door to "inverter compartment" added

 

Deck

Hatches, how small project to couple hours may quickly grow to midsize one.

I decided to replace ugly looking, leaking and in general bad constructed, as well jib sheet catchers original hatches with new low profile aluminum ones.

 

Original one.


 

In the Irwin owners forum one guy recommended these and tell he installed them on IC34. Maybe he has different IC34 than me, but ...

link to hatch Low Profile Extruded Hatch, 17-3/8" Square, Silver Frame & Smoke Lens

I spent to source them almost 3 months. go2marine.com shipped one and back-ordered second one and it took a lot of time to get it.


Ok, I get them, bought 4000UV and butil tape to seal. and....

I found the round does not fit in square well.

Opening in the deck is square, hatch frame has round corners. also hatch frame about 8 mm on each side smaller than opening, which is good, it will be dad if it will be opposite side. But both facts make the problem, corners appear the holes.

View for inside

View from outside.

So, i am going to do fiberglass frame, patching, sanding, painting job, and etching couple days after.

First step sand out gelcoat from the area will be glassed.

 

All ready for sanding

Gelcoat sanded and ready to get internal frame.

Than planning the frame. to be continued...

Can't leave opening open, so put old hatch back and sealed as much as i can :-)



Electrical

Electronics board "draft" build, for Open Plotter. 
Wiring requires some organizing, but as first, I have to make it functional ;) then look great.

Small electrical stuff.

Connected black water level gauge to indicator in Head. and powered it from "WC" breaker. So, when you go to flush, you will be able to see how much "stuff" you have space to put there :)


POwered up small 2.5" thermal printer. It is always nice to have something on board what can print.

Preparing to cold weather, engine compartment heater.


And... COLD WEATHER.

-5C outside, docks covered with ice, lake water about +15C steaming like tea in a cup.





 

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