Storage doors

[John Stevens]

I have two plywood pieces that cover the storage area holes at the top section of the "v" berth. How do those stay in place?

John

[adam aunins]

John you might want to shoot a few pic's or spend more time on a description of what you have for others to give you a good answer.

My doors have some wood cleats/tabs on the back of them and they go into place much like a slidding glass door does, put the top in lift up and set the bottom in place.

[John Stevens]

I'll try to get a picture, I just figured all the DS1 had the same forward area.

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[GreenLake]

I don't have plywood covers, but I have two covers that are some GFK material. They cover two largish holes in a GFK bulkhead above the front flotation tank. John, I'm assuming that's what you have, only with plywood parts.

My covers are each held in place by a bungee that is attached on their inside center and pulls them forward against the bulkhead. There are some shallow indentations in the cover that prevents them from sliding around, as long as something presses them against the openings.

The bungees run to a padeye on the top center of the flotation tank. They actually pull downwards at a slight angle, but that seems to not affect the covers; there appears to be enough forward pull to hold them.

I never put a lot of stuff in the front, so I don't worry about whether the bungees interfere with stowage - I guess they might in some circumstances.

[John Stevens]

That is exactly what I have but I don't have the pad eye inside the storage area to attach a bungee.

Thanks, I'll hook up something like that.

John

[calden]

When I bought my boat I didn't have a pad eye inside the front area to attach a bungee to, either. With age it had come off. I screwed a small eyestrap (or padeye - whatever - ) to a block of wood and epoxied the block to the inside, directly across from where the other one was located.

Carlos

[John Stevens]

Probably a lot of options of securing that line.

I had also thought of putting a cleat on the top middle of the bow and attaching something on the underside to hook a bungee on.

John