On the lighter side --- Major repair work in the galley...

Boat Guy

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May 15, 2013
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Who knows? Could be Cali, Oahu, Florida, Annapolis
Boat Info
400 DA
Engines
CAT 3116s
I don't know who to fault here. It could have been a serious error at the factory during manufacturing or perhaps a previous owner was being devious. Who knows? Who could tell...

Anyway, with my eagle eye I adverted a catastrophe....

You see, I removed the coffee maker on 400DA. I'm just not a coffee drinker; the GF uses a french press; and the cabinet now has a lot of space for pots/ pans....

Great right?

But imagine my surprise when I saw this :

before latch.jpg


Crazy right? Who would do this?

After major engineering, thought, planning, and effort.... I devised a solution...

And now we are safe again...

after hatch.jpg
 
Guys, this is the interior side of the push-button knob. Though if you push the button in to secure the door while underway, yet the latch is facing inward, I fail to see how it's going to help....Someone installed it that way...Simple fix is to remove the two screws and turn it 180 so if faces outward and will catch on the latch....

Anyway, I thought you'd see the humor....
 
The angle of the pic made it unclear initially but now I see it and yeah pretty funny. I’ve got a h going locker like that in the second cabin, latch backwards and no striker plate either. Hasn’t posed
a hazard so it’s way down on the project list.
 
Maybe they did this on all boats like yours and there's a class action lawsuit in the making? Who know what untold horrors have transpired over the years.
 
Maybe the PO reversed it so he didn't have to push the latch in all the time. I did something similar on my transom door. I reversed one latch ...now you can open it with one hand... so you don't have to put things down to open the hatch with two hands

Current Transom 1b.jpg
 
@Blueone , can't let them off that easily....What you did makes some sense, yet if you don't want to latch the cabinet door, simply don't push it in....If you make the effort to push the knob in to secure, you prob. have the expectation that it's secure...

I just happened to be looking at the door for other reason as I've removed the coffee maker and made it a storage cabinet....I actually no longer need the slide for the door and considering removing it.
 
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Maybe the PO reversed it so he didn't have to push the latch in all the time. I did something similar on my transom door. I reversed one latch ...now you can open it with one hand... so you don't have to put things down to open the hatch with two hands

Hmmm...I'm trying to think of a reason why this wouldn't be a great idea. It is a pain to have to use 2 hands each time. Good thinking.
 

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