Perspex Washboards - any recommendations?

[AndyL]

Not perspex. Use HDPE. I used Black 15mm HDPE, cuts out light. Nosey folk can't see inside.
Bay Plastics, North Shields

 

[Daydream believer]

Clear perspex reminds me of this on one club cruise to Brightlingsea
We were all rafted up in 2 rows. We had gone on to the pontoon & were waiting to go ashore from the mid river pontoon via the ferry. The slow elderly couple, on one outer rafted boat, opposite me, was holding us up. "Are they there", came the call to me. I stood on my foredeck & looked in through their clear cabin hatch & replied," Yes". "Well WTF are they doing, they are keeping us all waiting"
I replied " I dunno, but he ain't half got a spotty bum"
It was wasted on them. Only one other person understood-- & he was an ex Round Tabler as well

 

[Daydream believer]

Not perspex. Use HDPE. I used Black 15mm HDPE, cuts out light. Nosey folk can't see inside.
Bay Plastics, North Shields

If one was going for black then RG1000 is a lot cheaper. Not soft as HDPE & easy to machine.
I buy sheets of it for various tasks & 10mm would certainly do the task Ok. --But black?

 

[Refueler]

Not perspex. Use HDPE. I used Black 15mm HDPE, cuts out light. Nosey folk can't see inside.
Bay Plastics, North Shields

Each to their own ... I would be using the new washboards to allow some light in while maintaining a bit of privacy / stopping gale force winds going through !!

 

[Sea Change]

Catch 22

If you leave it unlocked your insurance is probably invalid. If you lock it your claim will be for whatever they stole - and maybe they will see the value and steal .... your Lewmar hatch) (and your premiums will increase)

Jonathan

We do lock up in some places because it would a right pain replacing things, even if nothing is of great financial value.

Sadly we left the world of affordable insurance behind when we left Europe. I don't think it's worth paying 10% of the cost of the boat every year in insurance. In Europe, it was 1%, which I was happy to pay.

 

[mrangry]

I made washboards and companionway hatch from grey tinted 10mm acrylic. I would advise acrylic over polycarbonate as the acrylic is less prone to UV degradation and less easily scratched over polycarbonate. YHave a look on simply plastics website Perspex and Polycarbonate in marine environments - Simply Plastics

 

[mrangry]

This replaced the old rotten timber boards

 

[Refueler]

This replaced the old rotten timber boards

Here's mine :

I don't have photo of the vertical part - but that has 'window' in each half ... it folds.

 

[Humblebee]

Thanks a lot guys, I've ordered some samples so it is probably up to the Admiral what we plump for!

 

[eddystone]

Another vote for Nu Signs in Mutley, Plymouth