We built a hard dodger for our H28 - Between Sea and Sky [ Ep 22]
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- To protect our companionway and cockpit from weather and making our life onboard more comfortable, we built a dodger out of plywood and fiberglass. Join us in this episode to discover how we processed the fabrication and the choices we made.
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I love the design of this dodger. Looks great on your boat. Good work and thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much!
I love the design too. It doesn’t match the boat, but is about as nice as the dog house I built from scrap wood. It looks a lot like a dog house too. Amazing the crap people do to old boats.
I've always had a soft spot for the H-28, this dodger looks much like the one I eventually built (after our first trip to Alaska) for my backyard built H-55. We had a boom gallows for the main so enclosing the entire cockpit was possible and just the thing for wintering over up there back in the '70's.
I recommend having a nice serviceable dodger made and get with sailing!!!!
Well done terrific job
Well done. That was a big job.
Thank you
Greetings from Tucson, Arizona USofA.
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Beautiful work!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great job !
Nice work, and well-made video. Thanks! I'm doing this on my boat for sure.
Thank you, I really appreciate that. All the best for your engine maintenance 👍
Thanks for posting -- nicely done and documented -- am contemplated a similar arrangement for our modest sloop...
Thank you
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Bonjour
Beau travail, merci de partager 😀
Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire 👍
plexiglass expands and contracts quite a bit. seemed to have been installed without any extra perimeter gap to compensate for this movement. good job though, looks nice
There is about 1.5mm gap all around the edge of the clear acrylic. I don’t know if it’s enough, but it seems to work so far. Thank you
Amazing, it looks like the front of a locomotive😂
Nice video! We just finished building our dodger for our boat. We would love to hear your thoughts!
Hi Chris and Marissa, thank you for your lovely comment. Your dodger looks very good, I’ve seen many hard top/canvas on similar boat design 👍
Well done.
We are almost finished with the hard dodger for my Jasmine so I know how much work is involved.
We used 26mm foam board.
Thank you. I hope you will enjoy having the dodger on, it made such difference for us so far. Do you have some pictures of the construction?
What was your total cost on building this? With the price of canvas and replacing dodger and bimini systems (plus I hate the look on classic boats), seems like this is much smarter for the long term.
Thank you for your comment. The total price would be around 1200NZD the plexiglas itself was 300$ for a full sheet and I could replace all the crazed portholes with the leftover.
Goodness, that's so much cheaper than canvas for the long term. Thank you! @@BetweenSeaandSky
Thanks for video.
What is the boat type and size?
You’re welcome Janis. M’chana is an Herreshoff 28 made of fibreglass with a LOA of 29.6 foot
@@BetweenSeaandSky Thanks for your replay.
Never hear this type boat.
She s is not Swedish made?
Do you need an assistant..?
I thought you were using that plywood as a plan which was going to be transferred to a foam product like Divinycell or similar or quality marine plywood. That plywood you have is not marine plywood, nor even good quality plywood, that is no good for marine use. Anyone watching this i would not recommend using plywood like this on a boat, especially externally
Its not structural just an add on doesnt affect seaworthyness
@@danscoltock1180 Nice idea either way and it will make life at sea so much more comfortable for you. It’s difficult when you are on a budget to justify the more expensive materials but the issue with cheap ply v marine ply is not so much about being structural but about it being able to stand up to the elements in a marine environment. The type of glue used and the quality of the timber mean that decent marine ply can better withstand the heat, rain, salt water and so on without delaminating and/or rotting along the glue lines from the cut ends. It looks like you made a go of sealing the ends as you went and glassing over the structure so you should get some good use out of the dodger before perhaps replacing it at a later date. How long it will last will depend on how well everything is actually sealed but if you don’t expect too much from it you may be pleasantly surprised. For future reference, you really need to wet out the timber with neat epoxy before trying to seal it or glue with a filler or glue mix as the timber sucks the epoxy from the fillers (or glass weave) and you end up with a dry join that won’t hold up..
Kiora you don't sound maori
Nice work ruining a classic design.
Thanks for your point of view