roger_millin wrote: > An Edgson (what a superb builder, look on and drool) has a hinged > hatch whose leading edge is trapped under the stern doors and the > hinges set so far back to the cant that you can't, having unscrewed > the screws, free the hinges/hatch because you won't get the hatch > raised (so it's totally secure). Under the lifting hatch is access to > a weed hatch upstand (quite a way down, but still with the require 10 > inches or so for safety certification) and a plate tightened down to > the top surface of the uxter plate by the conventional bar and screw > arrangement.
Sounds like Mr Edgson copied most of the good bits of an R&D weedhatch arangement (which Ray did as standard on trads and semi-trads since the 1980's)...except the weedhatch itself ;-) The plate clamped down to the top of the uxter plate is most disconcerting, especially once you have stuggled to crack the seal and watch the upstand fill with water. Having struggled to remove the weedhatch on an early Edgson boat (under the counter, it had no hatch in the rear deck at all) no wonder he copied a tried and tested design ;-) So how does the weed hatch work on Phoenix? -- Neil Arlidge Anglo-Irish-Dutch Barge Maurice A TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
