76 Seafari Fwd hatch

[rhody98]

Appears I have a "shag" gasket. Anybody familiar with these?

By the way, a bit off topic but do other Seafari owner's with the shag interior intact have flashbacks of your buddies '70's Ford Econoline from high school days and the odor of spilled beer? Just wonderin'

[NoBones]

Appears I have a "shag" gasket. Anybody familiar with these?

By the way, a bit off topic but do other Seafari owner's with the shag interior intact have flashbacks of your buddies '70's Ford Econoline from high school days and the odor of spilled beer? Just wonderin'

Yeah man, When we twist up a big fattie and break out
the Boone's Farm & Mad Dog 20/20...
I hear shag is coming back into style..
You may want to hold off on rippin' it out..

See ya, Ken

[76Red18]

Yeah man, When we twist up a big fattie and break out
the Boone's Farm & Mad Dog 20/20...
I hear shag is coming back into style..
You may want to hold off on rippin' it out..

See ya, Ken

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[Bigshrimpin]

I have shag in my cabin too on the red boat. Rhody did you ever get a prop for your boat? I see the guy in newburyport has a 19P mirage for sale still $50 I'm glad to see you got your money back.

[rhody98]

Big, yeah I did send that Mirage back to newburyport as it looked like it had been dragged down the highway, now that I've seen it not even worth $50. I found another Mirage plus 19P on ebay in great shape and tried it once, really locks in compared to the alum prop. After I spend some more time with it I will be reporting in to the experts here with some questions on trim.

[cSickNick]

I picked up some window self adhesive weatherstripping at Home Depot. A small roll peel off and stick seems to seal it fine.

Cheap so replace as needed ...

- nick

[Tarpun]

Yeah man, When we twist up a big fattie and break out
the Boone's Farm & Mad Dog 20/20...
I hear shag is coming back into style..
You may want to hold off on rippin' it out..

See ya, Ken

You guys were drinkin the good stuff. All I could afford was Ripple or Spinada. I vaguely recall something called Pink Passion, a looooong time ago. Dave

[Kahuna]

Rhody / Big,
i as well currently have the shag gasket. obviously the weather stripping recommended by nick should be far more effective.

Nick, we talked once before about getting a profile,aft/fwd shots of your seafari with the arch on it and some feed back about that, but hockey season was still underway. could I persuade you to possibly post a couple of shots of the arch you have installed? thanks

JC

[Bushwacker]

I came up with a hatch gasket scheme for my Seafari years ago which worked well, although the cheap Home Depot foam rubber gasket material wasn't real durable; it tended to crumble and I had to replace it every few years. Same scheme should last much longer with today's better softer foam. Might be able to find better quality material at an auto supply store or some outfit like Steele Rubber Products that makes gaskets for old cars. Here's one approach:

1. Remove all the shag carpet material from around edge of hatch where it contacts lip of deck/hatch gutter. Outside edge of hatch seems to overhang inside lip of gutter by at least 1/2".
2. Put some modeling clay on top of gutter lip, about 1/16" thick x 1/4" high.
3. Close and latch hatch to compress modeling clay.
4. Get some foam gasket material, approx 3/8" thick x 3/4" wide and glue it to OUTSIDE edge of gutter, with top of gasket even with the top of the modeling clay. You can set gasket slightly higher if you don't mind hatch not being quite flush when closed, but curvature of hatch will still cause slight gasket compression even if you set it flush with clay. The bottom of gasket was typically 1/8 to 1/4" above bottom of gutter on sides and bottom, and closer at top of hatch where I set it up for less compression.
5. Remove modeling clay and proof test after gasket cement cures.

The material I used was fairly dense rubber; some of the new foam stuff probably isn't stiff enough. It has some adhesive backing on it, but I used good old 3M yellow gasket cement which works a lot better. Resulting gasket wasn't particularly pretty, but didn't leak with either a bucket of water dumped on hatch or hose sprayed on it. Although the rubber compressed against underside of hatch provides primary seal, I believe the bottom side of gasket projecting out from gutter surface acts as a deflector that keeps most "high velocity" water from getting up to the primary sealing surface.

One could probably create a better looking molded silicone gasket using modeling clay and some RTV, but the foam gasket was quick and easy and worked well even if it wasn't very fancy.

[rhody98]

Bushwacker - sounds like a sound procedure. I will try it.