Medical Alert! Outbreaks of Hatch Scratch Fever are being reported. This inevitability happens every spring and seem to last primarily through the Summer months. Symptoms are shrugging of shoulders and facial cringe when sliding the companionway sliding hatch on various Catalina Sailboats made prior to 1995. This can be quite insidious as it affects crew members and dock neighbors almost as seriously. There is a cure and 150 case studies so far have shown treatment to have 99% efficacy. https://youtu.be/1AOsPGluaDs
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Mark Holzmann
"Hawkwind"
Sail #1246
Rose City Yacht Club-Portland OR
Mark, I used butyl tape to secure the slides. After two seasons not looking pretty. I want to take off the slides, scrape and clean off the butyl residue and re glue. What to use for cleaning your slides prior to re glueing?
What glue is used to secure hatch slides in place?
thanks.
peter g
2000 C36, MK2, Hull. #1897
wonderful, wonderful, wonderful ! ! !. 5 th Catalina
I have never glued down the strips. Mine and others just sit in the channel. I have used just a tad of Butyl tape at the end of the stripto keep the strip from sliding back
and forth. Paint thinner might clean off the old rubber butyl but I’d google it for the right solvent.
Mark Holzmann
"Hawkwind"
Sail #1246
Rose City Yacht Club-Portland OR
Ditto to what Mark said. Just a pencil eraser size ball of butyl tape will keep the strip in place, no need to overdo it.
Indeed, one of the (only) downsides I've discovered about butyl tape is that since it never "cures", over time it will keep extruding out the sides of whatever has been bedded with it -- even years later -- if one uses too much.
Matthew Chachère
s/v ¡Que Chévere!
(Formerly 1985 C36 MKI #466 tall rig fin keel M25)
2006 Catalina Morgan 440 #30.
Homeported in eastern Long Island, NY