Hi Bill, After reading all the stories about the problems of installing a lift motor mount in an M15, I decided to do it the easy way and cut an access hole and install a port. What I did was install a rectangular access hatch between the aft end of the sail locker and the end of the cockpit. It gave me excellent access to the area of the stern where I installed a backing plate (plywood) and then the Fulton lift motor mount.
From reading other postings, a smaller round hatch would probably have done the job as well, however:
how do you install a backing plate through a 8 inch diameter hole? Isn't it a lot easier to work through a larger area? My large hatch now give me a second sail locker for access to items stuck all the way aft. I keep my fenders there; my cleaning bucket and cleaning materials; and I find it a big improvement, because formerly all those items lived in the same space but were hard to get. Now it is just open the lid and reach in.............. I don't remember exactly whose hatch I picked, but WEST Page 467 - Bomar Inspection Hatches - Model 411597 10 1/4" x 14 1/4" flange OD will give you the idea. My feeling was: if I am going to have to cut an access hole to do the motor mount installation, then let's increase utility by making it another sail locker lid. Connie M15 #400 LEPPO
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Hi Bill,
After reading all the stories about the problems of installing a lift motor mount in an M15, I decided to do it the easy way and cut an access hole and install a port.
What I did was install a rectangular access hatch between the aft end of the sail locker and the end of the cockpit.
It gave me excellent access to the area of the stern where I installed a backing plate (plywood) and then the Fulton lift motor mount.
From reading other postings, a smaller round hatch would probably have done the job as well, however:
how do you install a backing plate through a 8 inch diameter hole?
Isn't it a lot easier to work through a larger area?
My large hatch now give me a second sail locker for access to items stuck all the way aft. I keep my fenders there; my cleaning bucket and cleaning materials; and I find it a big improvement, because formerly all those items lived in the same space but were hard to get.
Now it is just open the lid and reach in..............
I don't remember exactly whose hatch I picked, but WEST Page 467 - Bomar Inspection Hatches - Model 411597 10 1/4" x 14 1/4" flange OD will give you the idea.
My feeling was: if I am going to have to cut an access hole to do the motor mount installation, then let's increase utility by making it another sail locker lid.
Connie
M15 #400 LEPPO
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Connie, You are certainly full of good ideas! I presume you mounter the rectangular hatchs on the vertical surface under the seat. I may put one in just for convienience! Thanks for the idea. Doug Kelch "Seas the Day" --- chbenneck@juno.com wrote:
Hi Bill,
After reading all the stories about the problems of installing a lift motor mount in an M15, I decided to do it the easy way and cut an access hole and install a port.
What I did was install a rectangular access hatch between the aft end of the sail locker and the end of the cockpit.
It gave me excellent access to the area of the stern where I installed a backing plate (plywood) and then the Fulton lift motor mount.
From reading other postings, a smaller round hatch would probably have done the job as well, however:
how do you install a backing plate through a 8 inch diameter hole?
Isn't it a lot easier to work through a larger area?
My large hatch now give me a second sail locker for access to items stuck all the way aft. I keep my fenders there; my cleaning bucket and cleaning materials; and I find it a big improvement, because formerly all those items lived in the same space but were hard to get.
Now it is just open the lid and reach in..............
I don't remember exactly whose hatch I picked, but WEST Page 467 - Bomar Inspection Hatches - Model 411597 10 1/4" x 14 1/4" flange OD will give you the idea.
My feeling was: if I am going to have to cut an access hole to do the motor mount installation, then let's increase utility by making it another sail locker lid.
Connie
M15 #400 LEPPO
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Thanks to everyone for the information, but now I have more questions! Rich, do you remember which model you have? Connie, Like Doug, I'm interested in the concept of a large hatch. Since I have two shallow seat lockers, it would provide the only access to the aft portion of the below-cockpit area. For performance reasons, I don't want to store anything heavy that far astern, but it would be perfect for light, bulky items like fenders and sails. FWIW, it does reduce the flotation. Does yours latch securly? Are the latch tabs plastic? Larry, did you use a backing plate for the TT3X? Plywood? Does it seem secure, or does the transom flex? Doug, I will definitely try to find ss Tee nuts somewhere local. Thanks for the info. I'm sure yours is the same model Tod has. It it will hold you ant Tod, it should hold me. I think I did use yours last summer, but guess I wasn't evaluating the equipment at that time. Thanks again. Bill Riker M-15 #184 Storm Petrel
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