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Have you tried to get at them from below? The starboard side should be accessible from the berth below, and I'd expect the port side can be gotten to from inside the port lazarette. Let us know how it works out.
Thank you for the reply. I have only tried to remove them from the cockpit side. I took out the four corner screws and went around the frame with a thin putty knife and loosened it a bit... that's as far as I've gotten.
I will look today from below and see if that gives me a way of getting them out.
Have you tried to get at them from below? The starboard side should be accessible from the berth below, and I'd expect the port side can be gotten to from inside the port lazarette. Let us know how it works out.
I took a look today from below. The actual boxes are made of plywood and need to be replaced. There doesn't seem to be anything else holding the box together. I guess a thin putty knife and a "persuader" is in order now.
Catalina Direct sells the frame for the opening but I didn't see anything online for the box itself.
Being exposed to the weather as they are, who made the executive decision to build the boxes out of wood? What are people using to replace the box (if Catalina Direct doesn't have them)?
They were fiberglass on my 1985. I suspect the change was not long after yours was made--yours was only the second full year of production. I hadn't seen or heard of wood coaming boxes. (But there are lots of things I haven't heard of.)
Dave Bristle Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired), Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
They were fiberglass on my 1985. I suspect the change was not long after yours was made--yours was only the second full year of production. I hadn't seen or heard of wood coaming boxes. (But there are lots of things I haven't heard of.)
Thanks for the reply. Do you know if the boxes are available as parts somewhere?
The coaming boxes were an option when the boat was new. It could be yours were added by a PO later (generic). It would explain why they are wood. Like Dave said, The ones from Catalina are fiberglass as far as I know. The trim rings were teak but now can be had in plastic. You can never assume on an old boat with multiple PO,s that anything is how it was when the boat rolled out brand new. I've seen a few early production boats without boxes so It could be that the boxes weren't available in the first years.
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688 Sailing out of Glen Cove,L.I Sound
There are at least some variations, such as this from WM:
(You could omit the net.)
Then there's this "coaming box" at Defender:
...and a variety of "glove boxes" with lockable doors,including more on Amazon.
Dave Bristle Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired), Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
I would also contact both Catalina Yachts and Catalina Direct (unrelated to each other but CD provides tons of replacement parts for all Catalina boats) to see if there is a plastic/fiberglass replacement you could purchase and install -- would be much easier to maintain than a wooden one!
Peter Bigelow C-25 TR/FK #2092 Limerick Rowayton, Ct Port Captain: Rowayton/Norwalk/Darien CT
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Dave Bristle Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired), Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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Anyways, the cut out for these coaming/cockpit boxes is different than the replacements I found on Defender. CD doesn't stock them any longer. The ones on Defender are oblong with round ends. My cut outs are larger and rectangular in shape.
I rehabilitated both of the boxes... one of which I was able to remove. The other one is so set in its place that I left it. I sanded them inside and then coated them with Titebond 3, a waterproof waterbased glue... a couple of coats. Then I strengthened the bottom board by laying down some sheetrock seam netting (very strong) in the wet Titebond3. Installed the one today and have put on the first coat of marine primer paint and hope to finish them off this weekend.
Dave Bristle Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired), Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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