We built a hard dodger for our H28 - Between Sea and Sky [ Ep 22] 

Thank you very much!

I love the design too. It doesn’t match the boat, but is about as nice as the dog house I built from scrap wood. It looks a lot like a dog house too. Amazing the crap people do to old boats.

Thank you

Thank you, I really appreciate that. All the best for your engine maintenance 👍

Awesome! Thank you!

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Merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire 👍

There is about 1.5mm gap all around the edge of the clear acrylic. I don’t know if it’s enough, but it seems to work so far. Thank you

Hi Chris and Marissa, thank you for your lovely comment. Your dodger looks very good, I’ve seen many hard top/canvas on similar boat design 👍

Thank you. I hope you will enjoy having the dodger on, it made such difference for us so far. Do you have some pictures of the construction?

Thank you for your comment. The total price would be around 1200NZD the plexiglas itself was 300$ for a full sheet and I could replace all the crazed portholes with the leftover.

Goodness, that's so much cheaper than canvas for the long term. Thank you! @@BetweenSeaandSky

You’re welcome Janis. M’chana is an Herreshoff 28 made of fibreglass with a LOA of 29.6 foot

@@BetweenSeaandSky Thanks for your replay. Never hear this type boat. She s is not Swedish made?

Its not structural just an add on doesnt affect seaworthyness

@@danscoltock1180 Nice idea either way and it will make life at sea so much more comfortable for you. It’s difficult when you are on a budget to justify the more expensive materials but the issue with cheap ply v marine ply is not so much about being structural but about it being able to stand up to the elements in a marine environment. The type of glue used and the quality of the timber mean that decent marine ply can better withstand the heat, rain, salt water and so on without delaminating and/or rotting along the glue lines from the cut ends. It looks like you made a go of sealing the ends as you went and glassing over the structure so you should get some good use out of the dodger before perhaps replacing it at a later date. How long it will last will depend on how well everything is actually sealed but if you don’t expect too much from it you may be pleasantly surprised. For future reference, you really need to wet out the timber with neat epoxy before trying to seal it or glue with a filler or glue mix as the timber sucks the epoxy from the fillers (or glass weave) and you end up with a dry join that won’t hold up..

Thanks for your point of view