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Hi Roger,

Congrats on your purchase and glad you could join us here.

Can't claim much experience here but the very rear part of my rubrail
was rotted and encased in fiberglass (which led to which unknown) when
I got west-coast hull #93 and I'm hoping to replace the dry rotted
sill at the bottom of the companion way hatch.

It helps to have some experience with a yard. Some places will
charge you a large number of hours for simple tasks (realizing
that many tasks that should be simple are not). Other places
also have high hourly rates but this is something skilled
workers could do in a small handful of hours.

I don't know the state of the hatches right now, but teak
battens could be glued down with 4200 or similar bedding
compound. Basically that is done for soles and decks and
other things and is preferable to screwing the teak down
as screw holes, especially in great number, leak eventually.

If the old teak has been painted over, take an orbital to it
and keep taking off material (paint, dry rotted teak, busted
fiberglass) until you have a base to work with then fix the
fiberglass, repaint edges, and bed down teak strips (small lumber
or battens as makes sense).

That's one thought (or two? lost track). Hiring a handyperson
and giving them the old hatches as a template is an alternative
to using the yard too.

Cheers,
-scott