DIY kayak hatch cover
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2020
- How to make ocean kayak covers with epoxy and fiberglass.
Maybe it's not entirely clear, you need a lot of epoxy to douse the fiberglass properly... so : I put some epoxy on the paper, I lay a first layer of fibers, then i put more epoxy, add a layer of fiber and douse the cake with even more epoxy.
I'm using two types of epoxy : 5 minutes and a standard 3 for 1 parts marine epoxy from CIL (similar to West System 205...). You don't need to use 5 minutes epoxy at all, it's a little simpler/faster for the bonding of the flat surface and the "ring".
Actually, you could forgo the epoxy entirely and use much cheaper car part resin or boat repair resin.
The kayak in the video is an old Perception Captiva. 
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Thanks Rene! Your method works just fine. Made two hatch covers.
Cool! Too bad we cant put pictures in responses
Thank you, I own a Perception Carolina 14' that I lost the front hatch for, no help on the internet to find a replacement...this might work👏👏👏👏
exactly my experience. glad to help
Nice work, great idea
Thanks for showing the making of a nice, strong fiberglass hatch lids. They look right.
Why not attach a lanyard of paracord so they'll always stay with the craft?
If someone doesn't have the $ for those materials, they can (if making a new hatch) just cut out the size circular hole wanted from the Kayak deck (there, I spelled kayak backward again - gonna have to watch that).
Then cut a strip from a 5 gallon pail (bucket), maybe 2" wide, and plastic weld it around the inside of the new opening, so the strip is straight and level around the top.
Make a cardboard model of all this first.
Then grab a piece of 1/8" thick plywood and cut out a disc of the size you need for the cover, 1" bigger diameter than the hole. Round the top and bottom edges all around.
Primer and paint it now so it's completely sealed.
Run 4 screws into it, leaving each 1/2" proud (sticking up) for the elastic to hold to.
This is the lid top.
Turn it over and draw a circle, centered, on your disc, the same diameter as your opening. Screw
on 6 small L brackets around the circle. First file the bracket corners to radius (rounded). These will hold the lid laterally
Optional: Glue some soft gasket material around the perimeter of the lid bottom.
Bungy cords can be used to hold the hatch lid on, or use small diameter nylon rope, as it will stretch, with a small steel coil spring toward one end, where the rope is not contacting anything.
Plastic weld 4 steel hooks to the kayak deck to hook the nylon rope to. Sand them using about 60 grit so the plastic weld will stick to them. Clean. They can be made by bending nails. Bend the nails
to L so the bend will allow them to be held in place by the plastic welding. For example:
pull this nail I to the top of this page. It was easy.
Now pull this nail L to the top of the page.
It was able to be held in place by the plastic weld.
Now make 4 hooks for the 4 ends of the 2 nylon ropes.
Paint the work areas.
Done👍😁👍
So cool! Thanks for the help!
Nice Rene!
Thanks Daniele, I'll make a stringer tutorial just for you ;)
Mines missing a hatch cover lid and I wanted to go kayaking tomorrow any way I could make a temporary fix till it comes in the mail folks ?
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@@potvinr ty buddy
Hey, a friend of mine found your video while trying to solve this exact problem for the kayak they just bought and discovered it was missing a cover too. What type of epoxy did you use? Does it matter if the fiberglass is bought in a roll vs. folded sheets in a smaller batch? Thanks!
2:00 Can you provide more details on how you accomplished the base/circle part shown at the 2 minute mark?
I used CIL epoxy, any will work. You could use the cheap stuff like Polyurethane
Do you think it would be wise to use premade fiberglass strips? I found a couple options online.
I would have!
@@potvinr one more question, it is better to use woven fiberglass? Would it work? I found some for the same price as the other one.
@@rohanpatel1186 seriously, it wont matter. Obviously nice wooven material might do a nicer job
@@potvinr if you had to guess, how many ounces of apoxy and hardener did u need?
@@rohanpatel1186 oh i poured about 6 8 onces... i had old epoxy i was not willing to use for lamination lol
Hey quick question. So is it epoxy and fiberglass cloth, then another layer of both? Thanks
You need to put enough epoxy to "drown" the fiberglass but not so much that it makes a mess when you put pressure on it.
I'm not very clear in the vidéo lol. I put epoxy on the paper, lay fiber, then I put more epoxy, add a layer of fiber and I put more epoxy. It has to be doused in epoxy.
Rene Potvin yah I gotcha, I ended up putting wax paper right over the catch cover so the fiberglass would mold right to the seat design. Came out great
VIDEOGRAPHER TIP: DO NOT USE YOUR PHONE WITH THE SCREEN FACING YOU. You tend to look at yourself instead of the camera lense...Not to mention everything is backwards. and it looks like you're looking over our shoulder instead of talking to us.