butyl and wasps?

[anaisdog]

oh, i should do the main hatch on top too!  thanks!

[Noah]

Thankfully no bugs (and no leaves clogging my deck drains) here in San Diego. If you don't want to make your own screens for hatch and companionway (and don't mind the cost) you might want to check out this product at West Marine: http://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-marine--bugbusters-hatch-companionway-screens--P024_720_003_501

[anaisdog]

thanks.  I'll make it for less than 90 i'm sure

[Noah]

Seems to me one of the key construction features of both the hatch screen and companionway screen are the lead weights holding it "in place". I would try and incorporate this in your DYI version with perhaps fishing weights?

[anaisdog]

if i'm using galvinized chain though, won't that be heavy enough?

[Ron Hill]

anais : if you look in the mainsheet tech notes you'll see how I made a screen for the center hatch. 
It attaches on the teak border and should also work for a MK II. 

A thought

[anaisdog]

I will Ron, thanks.  I'm an MK1 though, I think.  hull 99 1986, right?

[Ron Hill]

You definitely are a MK I - in the 1st year of C34 production (1986)!!

[Ken Juul]

For the companionway you really don't need much weight to hold the screens in place.  I use 1" stainless washers.  Easy to make a pocket for them and they lay flat.  For the vee berth hatch the chain works well, for the overhead hatch in the salon, we use self stick velcro to hold the screen on the inside.

[anaisdog]

did you put the washers just on the top, not the sides, for the companionway?  thanks

[Ken Juul]

The companionway screen has snaps on the top, washers are in the bottom corners.

[anaisdog]

oh.  i don't have anything to snap it to.  so maybe i will use chain.  thanks