I am looking for a race hatch to fit a Cafe. I don't think too many people raced Cafe's so will I need to fabricate. I just want a light weight hatch to run when the padded hatch is not needed. I gotta have the padded hatch for the lake runs, wifey wants to layout. I imagine I could save a couple of hundred pounds(?) and would look pretty sharp.

Any suggestions??

gary,

caferacer on the forum here bought a hatch direct form the factory if i'm not mistaken. Mebee try giving them a ring at (305) 931-4564.

hope this helps!

btw, I like the avatar!

Sean

Titos,

What about that? Do you think you can help me?

G

Sean, the avatar is the BOMB!! Thanks buddy!

Cigarette made me a stock hatch for a sunken sunpad which i modified with some harwood scoops. It came out real well! plenty of room for perhaps...intercoolers. And i still have a little sunpad inbetween the scoops. Cigarette had no problems helping me at all. They made me several pieces, and even got a tour of the factory when i picked everything up. They are truely a great group of people. I`m sure that they would be happy to help.
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TOM

I'm in the process of doing what caferacer did. I'm using my stock hatch and adding scoops. I looked at having the hatch pad "raised", but it was just too expensive. There's a good picture of this setup on scope's web site

Cignifiant and Tom,

I appreciate the tips but I am not necessarily looking for blower room, just save some weight. I was figuring a light weight layup, glass hatch with vents could probably be a couple of hundred pounds lighter(?). The standard hatch is heavy.

I am very familiar with the blower scoops in the SCOPE picture, they are on a friends Cafe (for sale on OSO) and the others are on BCC's boat Ruckus. That is my boat in the picture, 2nd from the end.

Gary

What Up Titos ???

I'd say the standard hatch is 250-300 lbs. I know, because I'm pulling the engines and had to remove the hatch by myself yesterday. You might save 100 lbs with another layup, but it would also be more flimsey.

Anyway, good luck. Nice to see all of those Cafe's out your way..

Cignificant,

I was thinking that hatch weighed more than that. While you have yours off .... see if you can weigh it ... then I can tell if the search will be worth it.

There are bunch of Cafe's out here and most of them are very clean ... that's something considering the saltwater environment. At the SCOPE Poker Run last summer, there were 6 and there are a few more I've seen around the area.

I like the look of the different F2 hatches on the Guns.


Gettin' Ciggy wit' It

G

Gary, you might as well just drop a coule of scoops on the new hatch anyway. More air, looks tight and then you can blow those puppies when you're ready and not need to worry about the hatch! Plus I'm thinking those scoops would weigh less than the holes you would cut out of the hatch.....A little added weight loss.

You ready for Havasu??

Tank

Do you really think 100 lbs off a 9500 lb. boat is really gonna make a difference? Maybe .2 mph.