{"id":8492,"date":"2018-07-31T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:38:23","slug":"main-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/main-hatch.html","title":{"rendered":"Main hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should have photographed this main hatch while it still had strips of soft lining and polystyrene backing hanging from it, but didn&#8217;t think of it. Stripping the old lining and glue from it would be so easy with the hatch off the boat, but it&#8217;s held captive by fitted teak rails that would be a major faff to remove and refit, so done in situ.<!--more--> Managed to get most of the dead liner out of the sides with a &#8216;tool&#8217; I made for the job, but there are still a couple of stubborn wee strips I&#8217;d like to lose and a smidgen of glue to clean from the corners when I work out how. Think the new stuff will probably go on as a flat square and not down the sides, so just need a good key for the edges where access is tricky between hatch and surround&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-1.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-2.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-3-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-3.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-4-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-07-31hatch-4.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should have photographed this main hatch while it still had strips of soft lining and polystyrene backing hanging from it, but didn&#8217;t think of it. Stripping the old lining and glue from it would be so easy with the hatch off the boat, but it&#8217;s held captive by fitted teak rails that would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11648,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}