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[dserrell]

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[Craig Weis]

Good idea.
Or how about simply using fabric like screen sewn to Velcro.
The loop is glued on the 'boat' side.
The hook is on the detachable 'screen' side.
No frame. Rolls/folds up for storage. Abe it not the very best to be sure, however with gaps buttoned up they ought to work fairly well. "Sezz so in the book"
I do have factory screens for my four ports and netting currently for the fwd. hatch. And I suppose screens would be needed for the settee openings as well. Forgot.

I like to sit at anchor with four ports open, both settee hatches open [these hatches have a spring latch so they can't slam shut with wave/wind action], fwd hatch open [ my solar pn'l. raises with hatch ], companionway open, and a boom tent [ to keep the dew off ] over the boom and bungeed [opps that word again] to the life lines.
skip.

[Bob Condon]

In my boat, I went to the fabric store and purchased fine cloth mesh screen and some sunbrella. I then layed the screen over my companionway and hatches and marked the side.

I then sewed a tube  from the sunbrella (1.5 inches in dia) that would go around the outside of the companionway and hatch, filled with fine sand and then sewed the screen mesh onto the tube.

The weight of the sand keeps the screen in place, and it stores in a small plastic bag. I have not had any sand leak out so life is good.

BC

[charlie.yirka]

Ahoy Captain David!

This is Charlie part owner of your 1990 CP16-3! I will do just that; make some screens like you!

On another tack Mark and I had a great time sailing in Back Sound and off Shackleford Banks (two days) then to Cape Lookout for a day with a short jaunt in the ocean; she did great with the wind abeam all day. The return trip to Harkers Island only took about two hours from the ocean, with the tide behind and on the beam reach we were flying. Wish I had GPS we had to be doing 7 mph or so judging how fast we went past the channel markers.