wooden boat hatch design
The hatch in the drawing has a brass strip running in a wooden groove, however the hatch will slide more easily if you design it with metal running on metal. on the other hand you don’t want it running too freely or it will be sliding backwards and forwards every time the boat pitches and bobs in the water.. From the orca boats series of videos on wooden kayak building. this videos shows cutting out the hatches and building the hatch stop lip from plywood.. Fore hatch for a wooden boat. how do you build a fore hatch which never leaks? if i knew that my friends, i would patent it and make millions. wind and spray have a habit of seeping through even the narrowest of crevices. of course it all depends on the type of boating you intend doing and on your local weather patterns.. 
wooden boat hatch design The forward deck hatch on our project boat, keewaydin, a 1967 allied seabreeze, did not let much light into our dark and dingy forepeak. there was no mechanism to hold the molded fiberglass hatch open, and it was hard to adequately secure from the inside. we decided to replace it with a new waterproof hatch.the vetus hatch we chose was slightly larger than the original hatch,. This discussion of my row boat plan is a bit of a digression, not related to the wooden hatches topic (prompted by keyhavenpotter asking some questions about the sof row boat), if folk have more interest in this, it would be better if someone bumped the original thread on this rowboat design, added some questions and we can continue that topic.
