Sprayhoods with roll up "window"

[Laurie]

Anyone else with a sprayhood that opens in the forward central section?

It seemed a good idea when it was originally made as it allows an airflow into the cockpit on warm days but keeps the shade over the companionway. Now after some wet passage making this summer I'm not so sure as water runs off onto the hatch top when it has been left with a couple of inches strategically protruding from its garage otherwise the water falls directly into the boat and we've had a couple of unnecessary dunkings down below as a result. Our old sprayhood had a tongue of canvas which fitted under the traveller and attached to the deck forward of it meaning water ran off harmlessly.

I am thinking about a modification to slide under the traveller and velcro onto the bottom edge of the sprayhood opening which will re-direct some of the rain/seawater sideways along the deck forward of the sprayhood but wondered if anyone else has had a similar problem and how you solved it?

Did this with my jaguar 27, which allowed full movement of the coach roof with instrument binnacle thereon. 3 windows, with zip up the sides of central wide section and veclro or popper ties to hold the roll up. Worked really well.

 

[TQA]

My spray hood also has a roll up centre window but also has roll up covers to protect the window material and also stops water coming in the window zips.

I even have covers in the windows in the side panels of my cockpit cover to make the plastic window material last and not go milky by the UV

I asked about protecting my clear panels. My original idea was to have flaps of the same vinyl material as an overlay but have been told that this is a bad idea and the friction between the two will quickly scratch the clear materiel. So what about a fluffy material like a fleece I said, only to e told that it traps grit and scratches the clear materiel.

 

[rogerthebodger]

Don't have that problem with mine. The covers on my spray hood are held down with velcro but the cover panels and my side covers are zipped closed.

The only scratch I have on my clear panels in the spray was from one of the tie up cords that had a sharp edge left when the end was heat sealed. When the end was re heat and smoothed down no more scratched. The tie up tabs on my side covers are webbing not cord as on my spray hood. Webbing I think is better