Almost sunk my Delta Force 33" Today

[Raydee]

John I decided to do it like your hatch on all my hulls. I ordered 10 SS Knurled thumb screws and epoxied Blind nuts under the lip of my hulls. I am going to use a rubber washer under them to keep the water out. That should keep my hatches on for sure.

[Flying Scotsman]

John I decided to do it like your hatch on all my hulls. I ordered 10 SS Knurled thumb screws and epoxied Blind nuts under the lip of my hulls. I am going to use a rubber washer under them to keep the water out. That should keep my hatches on for sure.

Ray, I still have my first two FE mono hulls and each secured with six blind nuts and SS allen head bolts with O rings and weather strip around the hull openning but I found them a pita to secure and open. I then got lazy and used tape only. I may rethink this after your escapade.

Douggie

[Raydee]

Yeah Douggie it was def a eye opener for me. There is a chance that it may never happen to me again but I really don't want to take that chance.

[detox]

If water is too choppy I stay away...waste of time.


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[Raydee]

Yeah but sometimes after waiting for the weekend to come you have to take some chop.

[exotica]

...I use two nuts on mine and tape...see image...

[BHChieftain]

Can you take off the hatch and take a pic of the internal mount points?
Thanks!
-Chief

[exotica]

...this is the only photo i have that shows a mount point. They are glassed in from the underside of the lip...

[Raydee]

Exotica I was going to do that exact sme thing but decided thumb screws would be a little easier and "toolless".

[Efis]

Just curious Ray, did you CF the inside of your DF33?

Blake

[Raydee]

No I didn't.

[Raydee]

Here is what I ended up doing on my SprintCat hull and I will be doing this on all my hulls. I ended up using Thumb screws with blind nuts mounted on the inside of the hull. I used Nuts loctited on the bottom side of the hatch so they can't come off and I used thick rubber washers under the blind nuts to seal out and water.