[C38] New thread-Access holes

[tdtron at earthlink.net]

The access you show in your photos are in the quarter berth.  Someone did a superb job of opening up that access.  I chose to make my access by cutting out the floor of the sail locker and connecting the floor cutout to the existing access cutout by bringing my saw up the inside bulkhead making one very large access.  I felt it was easier to access the engine compartment by the sail locker than from the quarter berth but either would be a great improvement.

If you modified the sail locker on your boat to gain access there also, you would have the best of both ways.

Tom Troncalli


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After reading several responses from other threads about the access holes and not all C38's have the same holes I have decided to post mine to compare to others. Here are the access cutouts on my C38 #108. Pictures #902 port sail locker shelf where an Espar heater was, 903 access cover in sail locker, 904 water heater from port side, 905 cutout in qtr berth, 910 water heater removed through qtr berth, 909 muffler to right and shelf under sail locker where I think Tom T. and others have installed a starter battery after cutting out part of the sail locker floor, 906 looking aft at leaking strbd scupper, 907 port scupper and 915 the panel for the qtr berth.
With the water heater removed (not too hard of a job as others have also said) I believe the access to the stern will be pretty good.
On a previous thread about the Mysterious stuffing box behavior I thought I had a rudder post leaking issue and now I think it was my scupper that was letting in all the water. After fixing the scuppers I plan on a hard sail with lots of weight aft to see how much the rudder post leaks. It looks pretty good in the picture. You can see stain lines from the scuppers that tell they were leaking.
Originally I was going to do the big cutout of the sail locker floor but now I may do just the small one to put the starter battery on that little shelf. Also I plan to put the refrigeration unit at the forward end of the sail locker.
Dan #108
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