Any photos of your fiberglass sliding hatch cover for your Vic 18? I own 1.5 Vics - please don't judge me - it just kind of happened - but the questions are 1: how dry does your hatch keep the cabin and 2: If the sliding hatch isn't right, what do you do?
Back story - Blue 1982 Vic has a very flat sliding hatch cover. That cabin stays very dry. But I don't think it's original to the boat. The fiberglass on the hatch has been carved to fit around the vertical companionway wood pieces but the whole thing works. Yellow (1979?) Vic has a much flimsier, rounded fiberglass hatch cover that leaks in huge amounts. I think that Yellow Vic's hatch cover is also a replacement, but not as well fitted or planned
So, fellow Vic Sailors, your advice is welcome.
Back story - Blue 1982 Vic has a very flat sliding hatch cover. That cabin stays very dry. But I don't think it's original to the boat. The fiberglass on the hatch has been carved to fit around the vertical companionway wood pieces but the whole thing works. Yellow (1979?) Vic has a much flimsier, rounded fiberglass hatch cover that leaks in huge amounts. I think that Yellow Vic's hatch cover is also a replacement, but not as well fitted or planned
So, fellow Vic Sailors, your advice is welcome.