A new delivery for the sailboat, yae :)Although I should have been working on sealing the many leaks that have been drenching my clothes...
I opted for an easier task instead.I finally had gotten around to ordering new knobs for the two hatches of SV Athena and one new hatch arm, which holds the hatch open. See new delivery from Pompanette in pic on top left. My hatches are pretty old, likely around the same age as SV Athena, whom is now 31 years old. So, I wasn't sure I was actually going to be able to find the correct parts to fix her.
The knobs had been breaking on me one at a time, and it was no longer possible to get the hatches to seal properly with the broken knobs. See the plastic of the knob split in the pic on the top right.And, the salon area hatch would no longer hold itself open.
I replaced two knobs on each of two hatches and one arm on one hatch. The arms are kind of expensive, so I wanted to make sure it all worked before I order the second one for the forward hatch.
It all worked out and I can't wait for summer to be over to open up the sailboat again and let the beautiful breezes blow below! You can bet that hatch in the pic on the bottom left didn't stay open long in the Florida August heat and humidity. It was awesome though just to have it open for a few moments to take in the sunlight as it poured down below on our Florida summer souls, which emotionally feels like a New England winter to me...
