Mary Lou,    Thanks for the photo and detailed description.  I think I see how these are supposed to work.  I'll have to take a close look at my boat in the spring, I might even be able to make my own.
Peter
    On Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 12:03:30 PM EST, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:

 Here are the port covers on Fretless, taken some years ago. They are in their flat cover position. You can just see a fiberglass batten sticking out from under the lower edge. What looks like a snap in the middle of the lower edge is actually a rivet holding the batten to the cloth. What you can't see is a second set of snap posts just inboard of the posts at the lower corners of the cover. When the covers are in use as a mini-scoop for air with the ports open, the fiberglass batten is arched between these two posts and the cloth cover snapped down to these inner posts to hold it in place. We always said they looked like arched eyebrows but unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture. Hope this is helpful.

Mary Lou
ex Rhodes 22
now Rosborough RF-246 Tara

On 12/3/2023 11:32 AM, peter beckerman via Rhodes22-list wrote:
> Roger,    Those port covers sound like just the thing to save me the trouble of draining the wells when I visit my boat after it rains (ie. every weekend all summer long).  If it's not too much trouble, could you get some more photos of them in action once we get back into sailing season.  I'd love to see how the scoop function works so I can make (or have made) a set of my own.
> Thanks (again)     Peter.
> Ps.  I epoxied my tiller handle yesterday per your instructions and will give it a week or two under clamps to set up.  So far everything went very smoothly.  Fingers crossed.