Screen for back door

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Larry Patrick

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Can you buy a ready made screen for door? Saw fishfinder had a nice screen in his album. Im making a screen this weekend for front window hatch using what others have mentioned no seeum screen hot glue gun and Velcro. Thanks
 
Hope you have better luck with the hot glue gun than I did. The glue stuck to the boat okay but wouldn't stick to the velcro.
 
Larry Patrick":dufk6s8t said:
Can you buy a ready made screen for door? Saw fishfinder had a nice screen in his album. Im making a screen this weekend for front window hatch using what others have mentioned no seeum screen hot glue gun and Velcro. Thanks
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I don't have enough bugs to worry about, but if I did, I'd take the door off and take it to a window/door shop and have them install an adjustable window that dropped down to various degrees of open, and had a permanent screen installed over the outside, using marine quality safety glass and a suitable frame of marine quality components.

With this screen, the ones on the two side windows, one on the center opening window and another on the front deck hatch (plus a few fans), you'd have enough ventilation for most situations, short of those requiring full AC.

Just a thought!

P.S.: This would not work as easily, of course, if you had a clear plastic rear cabin door.

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
What I have on the back of the tomcat is a custom made screen sewn from pretty heavy nylon screen material. The edges are finished with canvas and snaps. The corresponding snaps are mounted on the door frame using the pre-existing screens.
 
Joe I think their door might be a solid glass one.

I made my door screen like the window covers and put snaps on the inside of the door frame just replaced the screws. I used Phifertex for the screen.
 
No see em net, (surplus), and velcro, hot glued to the screen/velcro, and the boat/ Velcro. Not sure if the velcro or the glue was different than what lloyds used.

Our C Dory 22, has the dropping window in the aft door, with screen installed.
 
This set of screens came with our C-Dory. Made by J.P. Barker, Custom Canvas & Upholstery, Crystal River, FL 352-795-1026.
Very well made and fit great. Door screen has a full zipper for easy entry. Attach with snaps. Set includes the door, front opening window and v-berth hatch.
See our "Screens Album"
Pardon the poor quality pictures. Hung them on a door...would not show up in the boat.
 
I have the same set of screens that kennharriet has. I can second his enthusiastic endorsement of them. It seems that many of the 22's that were sold by the dealer in Crystal River, FL, had an "add on value package" of canvas and etc. made by J.P. Canvas (also in Crystal River). My boat has the screens (the door one is particularly nice), window covers made of Sunbrella trimmed sailcloth, fitted carpets that snap to the sole and other areas where feet go, and also the bimini was made by J.P.

It's all really nicely done. He's still in business (at least as of last year), so I wonder if he might make something like the screens and send them out via mail order. I can understand them wanting the boat there for things like fitting a bimini, but maybe the screens could be done by pattern/photos.
 
Thanks for replys,just came back from 2 nights on boat. It was muggy around 90 degrees humid. Was good that boat came with air. During day swimming was way to cool off. Took wifes niece ,after her trip she wants her fiancée to get a boat. Just so happened to be a dually pulling a long trailer its a mobile canvas and boat works co. Name is Top of the Line Canvas express 607-8496006 888-8496006 or 315-938-5001. He usually works the Thousand Island area,posting number incase it helps someone. Other boat owners said they recommended him. One of our big zippers on canvas back kept opening and not zipping ,they replaced it right there in trailer $75 ,no more aggrevation of trying to get it zipped. Got price to make screen door ,he said he would use a rubber gasket ,and it would button on inside.$275,have to pass . Will try and make my own. Been using therma cells ,so we can sit on stern area with no canvas ,quite a few mosquitos. On nights that don't need air conditioning ,would be nice to have air come in thru screen door. Was going to make screen for helm window,but wife forgot screen.Will contact Florida number and check with them also,like the zipper in door ,no need to keep un buttoning. Robert will try that magnetic screen ,since wife just said she has one in box still.
 
thataway":bn60qyzu said:
Our C Dory 22, has the dropping window in the aft door, with screen installed.
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This is something I think I would use fairly often. I realize your 22 came with it, but does anyone else know where they came from? Was it a Diamond Sea Glaze thing, or?

This would be for the early 2000's era door that is made of starboard and has a window in the upper half (but it's a non-opening window). Rest of the boat has the white Diamond Sea Glaze windows.

I suppose I could use any appropriate window, but just wondered where the "official" ones came from.

Thanks,
Sunbeam
 
Sunbeam":45p1hvag said:
thataway":45p1hvag said:
Our C Dory 22, has the dropping window in the aft door, with screen installed.
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This is something I think I would use fairly often. I realize your 22 came with it, but does anyone else know where they came from? Was it a Diamond Sea Glaze thing, or?

This would be for the early 2000's era door that is made of starboard and has a window in the upper half (but it's a non-opening window). Rest of the boat has the white Diamond Sea Glaze windows.

I suppose I could use any appropriate window, but just wondered where the "official" ones came from.

Thanks,
Sunbeam
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Sunbeam, several years back, a number of C-Brats put together a bulk order from Diamond Seagate to produce vertical sliding windows. I think this is the thread that got the ball rolling. Vertical Sliding Windows order
 
The question I have about screens installed with snaps is, do the bugs still come thru between the material and the boat between the snaps? I do have a screen we made for our berth hatch, but is velcroed on, so no open space anywhere. Colby
 
colbysmith":3q9f0b0l said:
The question I have about screens installed with snaps is, do the bugs still come thru between the material and the boat between the snaps? I do have a screen we made for our berth hatch, but is velcroed on, so no open space anywhere. Colby
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No so much out here but we don't have near the bug problem that you have in Wisconsin (where the state bird is the mosquito).
 
The guy that gave me a price for screen door suggested a rubber gasket around screen where snaps would be . So you would be getting a seal on inside after buttoning up.
 
Don't know about skeeters, but the "noseeums" down here will definitely come in between the snaps. I had to fill in the gaps with the much hated (or loved, depending on your point of view) Velcro. Anyone with a better idea, please advise.
 
This is kind of a side note, but speaking of no-see-ums:

Since I'm not *always* in a no-see-um infested place, I didn't want to use no-see-um netting in my screens. Reason is because it passes a lot less air than regular size screening (just like regular screening passes less air than no screening).

So I carried some panels of no-see-um netting with me that I could put over the screens when necessary.

But then I found another alternative that can sometimes be useful: If you can aim a fan on you or across you, then the no-see-ums can't "fly up-breeze," and so even if they get inside they can't land on you. I've used this as an alternative when I didn't have no-see-um screening available, or when it was hot enough that I wanted the additional air of regular screens (and likely wanted a fan blowing on me anyway).
 
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