Does anyone have a good idea for making a simple cockpit folding table for a C-30? I'm more interested in the hardware used and how it was mounted.
Thank,
Tom
Thank,
Tom
Cockpit folding table
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Sounds like a nice project!! A photo of your pedestal would help. Do you have pedestal guard like the shown below to attach the tabe to? If so, you can buy cockpit table support arms from Catalina Direct OR binnacle guard mountings and hinges from Edson. You can attach a Starboard from Taps Plastic to mount hinges to it attached to the cockpit table with stainless steel legs that can rotate and attach to the pedestal. This thread below on cockpit table hardware might be helpful.
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Cockpit table: do it yourself? Plans?
I'm looking to add a cockpit table to my catalina 30. The drink holder with the drop leaf table kind. I'm looking to either buy something cheap or make one myself, thus avoiding the laser sight from the wife's Glock. Anybody make one that they love? Or, can you say, what you'd do, next time...
Cockpit Table and Hatch Support Arm
Catalina Direct, publishers of the Catalina 22 and Catalina 25 Owner's Handbooks and the largest supplier of parts and Lewmar winches for Catalina Yachts in the country
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It depends on what you call simple. The simplest is a slab of whatever, no fiddles, (epoxy sealed if oak or mahogany or teak ply) and a solid wood/alum or stainless tubing with a rubber cane tip and the top end with a stub that fits into a 1/4” or so hole. There are spring loaded removable hinges (as my table has) to remove/stow the table, or leave it folded down against the pedestal guard. The hinge halves are mounted to a teak board (1 x 2? 3?) that mounts to the guard with s/s pipe straps.
More complicated are - attached leg or s/s support (mine) that folds and all stays in place if you don’t want to remove it, folding leaves, fiddles, and so on.
There’s no free lunch so if you can define how simple you want (time, materials, ability, man tools,) I can point you to hardware.
Many C-30 Assn forum members have tables - some homemade (mine was from H&L) so why not cross post the question?
More complicated are - attached leg or s/s support (mine) that folds and all stays in place if you don’t want to remove it, folding leaves, fiddles, and so on.
There’s no free lunch so if you can define how simple you want (time, materials, ability, man tools,) I can point you to hardware.
Many C-30 Assn forum members have tables - some homemade (mine was from H&L) so why not cross post the question?
Edson Marine sells cockpit table hardware kits for DIY'ers. Below are some of the examples of what they sell with a diagram of one table example.
Cockpit Table Hardware Kits
Edson’s Cockpit Table Hardware Kits are for the handyman who wishes to design and build his own cockpit table or accessories based on Edson’s tried and true designs. Select the size table you prefer and match with the hardware shown here. All kits are complete with instructions and stainless...
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I didn't make it, but mine is very similar to the Edson one as posted above. I don't have the leafs though. I get three cup holders instead and a nice lip edge all the way around.
and then call it a "Port Tack" special...
The hardware giveth, and the software taketh away.You just have an iPhone picture and it is controlling you.