Where to buy New Dorade Boxes for Deck Top?

[SV THIRD DAY]

As you can see on THIRD DAY, I have a starboard dorade box but the port opening has a simple rotating cowl vent, which is just waiting and begging to send a rogue wave right into my cabin!  Has anyone found a Dorade Box for the Port cabin-top vent that somewhat matches the original on the starboard vent?  Or am I looking at buying two news ones so they match?

This is item....oh...I don't know, 65 on my to-do-list...but I need to deal with it before I have a wet interior and I like to put my Kids DVD/TV player on the shelf right below the vent...yikes...

[kevin barber]

Your boat appears to have a different configuration than any other I have seen.  Many 365's have matching dorades on either side of the mast, then another thru-deck just forward on the port side.  The additional thru-deck was originally designed to accept a chimney for a cabin heater.  I have always used it as another form of ventilation.

Have you thought about a solar vent?  I installed this one from ICP.  It works a ton better than the Nicro Vents.  Never leaks, and you can switch it between off/exhaust/intake





Here is what it looks like on Pan Dragon.

[SV THIRD DAY]

Interesting....

So Kevin...when the sea is smashing on that vent it is still water tight?  If if is, then it could be an answer....

Oh....and thanks for Posting a Photo that makes my toe rails look like Crap compared to yours Ha ha ha...I started working on that this weekend...

[kevin barber]

Yeah, I have never had any leaks from that vent.  Hurricanes, huge waves, etc-  the thing really works!  The boat used to have a nicro solar vent, but it leaked constantly.   ICP got this one right.

Haha, dont get me started about toe rails!  

I need to get you a pic of what they look like now.  I decided that i was completely fed up with varnish/ cetol/ etc, and stripped it again...   I now have semco on all the teak topsides. Much less hassel than a glossy finish, an I think it looks better!  Here is a link for semco if you havent heard of it.

//http://www.semcoteakproducts.com

[kevin barber]

Heres pics of semco....  This stuff is awesome.  You can apply 2 coats in about 30 mins.  Dries in about 5 mins.  You can apply it with a rag.  Just rub it on, and it soaks into the wood.  SOOOO much easier than varnish.
I usually put another coat on every 4 to 6 months.  No big deal because it goes on so fast.  It beads water, and resists mildew.  Wont allow the teak to grey out.  
I used the goldtone color.  I first started out with the cleartone to get the darker color, but it doesn't last nearly as long as the other colors do.







Check out the chrome bow roller!  Thanks to Drew and Haley from lostonpurpose.com.  I guess one of their parents got it chromed for them as a gift, but then they decided to remove the whole anchor sprit!  So they had no need for the chrome roller.  I took it from them in a heartbeat.   Thanks again guys!

[getlostonpurpose]

What a snazzy, chromed bow roller you have there Kevin?  How's it holding up?

[Jack Tyler]

Rich, there are companies that make and sell GRP dorade boxes which look similar to what Pearson laid up. We purchased a matching (close but not identical) dorade for our 424 from a web-based company in 2003.

The Semco treatment looks very nice; I'm guessing it is fairly new. We found Semco to hold up poorly to even mild abrasion tho' this was years ago; perhaps they have changed the product? E.g. anywhere the caprail would invite being stepped on when boarding, the treatment soon showed through.

I apologize if this sounds critical, however it's worth pointing out that a lot of 365's came with these unsupported anchor platforms made exclusively of teak, with the bow roller(s) cantilevered out some distance from the bow. (It was somewhat of a 'regional style and Allied in NY along with Bristol, Ryder & Pearson in RI featured all-wood, cantilevered anchor platforms during that era). All the force (directly down and also sheering motion port & stbd) seen by that roller can not be  passed along to other structures - the wooden platform alone must take the loading and its capacity to do this is quite limited. Another dilemma with these platforms is how they will respond to the shockloadingof an unintended collision with a dock piling, cement quay or other such object when maneuvering in tight harbor basins, perhaps with some crosswind to liven things up. A good fix for this is a 3" OD stainless tubing framework that surrounds the wood and is thru-bolted on both sides of the bow, with a support strut from that framework led down & aft, thru-bolted on the leading edge of the bow. I've also seen one or two hulls with the forestay moved out to the end of the platform and a weldment added at the platform's front end. The weldment accepted whisker stays and a conventional bobstay (all wire with turnbuckles). Presumably this also helps with the weather helm that develops in the ketch sail plans as the wind picks up or when going upwind.

Jack

[merman365]

We have a SS port side chimney for our Force 10 propane cabin heater(had a wood stove) It works great and prolongs our cruising season, it gets FN cold up here! On cold wet day's we can lay around and read or do winter projects in warmth and comfort.