by GreenLake » Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:59 am
@JDoorly, I understand Scott's idea as a dual one of reusing the cut-out for the hatch cover, and to not have a raised hatch.
The minute you allow for a raised hatch, it can work like the lid of a shoebox, by overlapping. In principle, Scott could find a way to create a mold so that he could add the overlap to his cut-out, but he would lose the feature of retaining the overall "look & feel" of the deck. (And building an entirely "new" lid would be just as easy in that case).
I think that's a stylistic choice on his part - so I've treated it as a given that this is the effect he's after and have been trying to give him suggestions that fit inside those parameters.
In a sailing magazine that I perused recently, somebody described how to make traditional light boxes (the ones that look like miniature green houses). In that design, while most of the lid had an overlap, there's also a hinge at the ridge, and a way to deal with the water that seeps through the crack of that hinge - using just the kind of channel that Scott was thinking of. So in a way, you could say there's precedence for dealing with this issue.
As a DS1 owner, who doesn't have issues with cuddy openings, I'm not going to take sides on whether the proper style should be based on traditional yachts or more modern examples (car sunroof). I can see arguments for either position. If Scott does end up developing his own approach, so much the better for those that follow you guys. They will have different and interesting solutions to study and ponder.
~ green ~ lake ~ ~
