Companionway sliding hatch replacement.

[SailingUphill]

I helped a guy drop the mast on his S2 7.3, and we cracked his hatch when the boom crutch fell over on it.

I made note that my own hatch has a huge crack on the side of it.

So my question is, does someone have a vendor that can build a replacement hatch?

[brian462]

Try contacting Mickey Gregg, his info is listed under the Rules/Docs tab and select Part List

[Stef]

The actual hatch, you need to catch a hatch run. Bostons did one several years ago, and I got one. The tracks to slide the hatch are easy enough to make. I don't believe there are any anywhere, but check this site on the parts list.

[SailingUphill]

I've personally made the slides, that's a router and a lot of jig making, but not terribly hard. I did some nice starboard tracks for 68, and was smart enough NOT to cut them all the way through, so that the track was the stopper instead of the fiberglass at the end

Yeah this would be for the hatch. I reached out to another contact on here to see if they still did hatches, they were in FL, will be back end of March I think.

I have a big chunk out of my own hatch, but we accidentally cracked a hatch on a 7.3 while we were dropping the mast for the first time in years. We hoping to create a run of 7.3 hatches, another boat neighbor has a huge crack on his 7.3 hatch right at the handle. The 7.3 is similar to the 7.9 but not the same.