It Floats!

Companionway

A short post of my companionway. Short because the pictures are just a very brief representation of the whole “engineering-process” which took me several months. Making a slider in aluminum is a bit of a hustle for at least two reasons: First of all aluminum doesn’t have enough thickness to receive a milled notch and second because aluminum really “swings”: It warps in the most unpredictable ways when welded.

So it took me a while to think over the possibilities and at least a same while to fit and tack it together step by step.

And of course a bit bending and grinding to fit the nylon sliders nicely in the aluminum profile.

For the open end of the hatch-garage I applied a homemade forming profile. this worked very well and looks nice as well.

The garage is not finished yet but to get an idea how it looks in aluminum here are some pictures.