I have been following this discussion,.. does anyone have the specific model number for the door used and what product did you use for the storage area?

Cada
Jubilee

Feb 7, 2009 10:46:59 PM, () wrote:

Dan was asking about this. There is a approximately 18″ between the shower liner and the exterior hull at the height of the soap dish. This is where my faucet for my shower is mounted. There is approximately 12″ to the hull at the height of the shower seat.

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Hi Cada,

I used a Bomar 11 x 15″ hatch. You can probably use a hatch up to about 18″ x 22″, and I wish I had used a bigger one. Below the seat I recently added a 5″ inspection port which allowed me to recover the large-ish piece of fiberglass that fell down there when I cut out for the hatch. John Stevenson had the same issue. I think Rich Carter (Blacksheep) put in the larger hatch.

Bob

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I have been following this discussion,.. does anyone have the specific model number for the door used and what product did you use for the storage area?

Cada
Jubilee

Feb 7, 2009 10:46:59 PM, () wrote:

Dan was asking about this. There is a approximately 18″ between the shower liner and the exterior hull at the height of the soap dish. This is where my faucet for my shower is mounted. There is approximately 12″ to the hull at the height of the shower seat.

-p

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Aloha Cada:

Following Bob Fine’s advice, I purchased a 13 x 23 slam latch from West (490540). That I will install shortly.

My original question was about the space between the aft most wall of the shower liner and the wooden bulkhead forward of the chart table. I would like to know this before I cut the hole for the access door because it may impact where I mount the hand held shower unit. I am thinking about installing the shower slide mount and the fitting for the hand held unit on this wall and will need some clearance to fit the water supply line.

Dan Kalinowski
S/V Lady Leanne (#135)
Honolulu

Dan,

On my boat there is less than an inch of clearance. The aft most wall of the shower liner and the wooden bulkhead forward of the chart table are virtually touching. What you’re wanting to do is impossible unless your boat was made differently.

Tor
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Tor:

Thanks. Now I can plan the layout per “Plan B” and make the cut for the access door.

Dan K
Lady Leanne (#135)
Honolulu

Dan,

I placed my door dead center, but if I were doing it again I’d offset it a couple of inches farther aft. There’s still plenty of room for the door to swing open completely, and it leaves more space forward of the door for the faucet hardware beneath the soap dish shelf. Of course, if you’re mounting your faucet elsewhere this may not matter to you.

Also, be aware that the shower liner’s outboard wall is not flat. Rather, there is a slight reverse camber to it, i.e., it bulges outboard. When you mount one of those pre-fab plastic doors that most of use have used for this, if you fasten it hard to the liner/wall it will bend the door frame. The door latch will not catch and the top of the door will probably not be waterproof anymore. I solved this by not tightening so hard on the top and bottom door frame bolts. I then filled in the slight gap top and bottom with rope caulk (non-hardening putty). It looks OK, the latch works, and the door doesn’t leak. No doubt there are slicker ways to deal with that camber.

Tor
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Tor:

Thanks for the heads up. I noticed this when I finally got all of the pieces in one place and was wondering how to deal with the curvature. The putty idea will take care of it!

Dan K
Lady Leanne (#135)
Honolulu