2009 Labor Day cruise 003 front ports closeup.jpg

On 12/3/2023 12:03 PM, Mary Lou Troy wrote:
> Here are the port covers on Fretless, taken some years ago. They are 
> in their flat cover position. You can just see a fiberglass batten 
> sticking out from under the lower edge. What looks like a snap in the 
> middle of the lower edge is actually a rivet holding the batten to the 
> cloth. What you can't see is a second set of snap posts just inboard 
> of the posts at the lower corners of the cover. When the covers are in 
> use as a mini-scoop for air with the ports open, the fiberglass batten 
> is arched between these two posts and the cloth cover snapped down to 
> these inner posts to hold it in place. We always said they looked like 
> arched eyebrows but unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture. Hope 
> this is helpful.
>
> Mary Lou
> ex Rhodes 22
> now Rosborough RF-246 Tara
>
> On 12/3/2023 11:32 AM, peter beckerman via Rhodes22-list wrote:
>> Roger,    Those port covers sound like just the thing to save me the 
>> trouble of draining the wells when I visit my boat after it rains 
>> (ie. every weekend all summer long).  If it's not too much trouble, 
>> could you get some more photos of them in action once we get back 
>> into sailing season. I'd love to see how the scoop function works so 
>> I can make (or have made) a set of my own.
>> Thanks (again)     Peter.
>> Ps.  I epoxied my tiller handle yesterday per your instructions and 
>> will give it a week or two under clamps to set up.  So far everything 
>> went very smoothly.  Fingers crossed.
>