From: Bill Lucy 

In article , steve{at}qmss.com says...
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:31:31 -0500, Frank Haber 
> wrote:

> The hatch has a rubber seal around it, and there are three (in our case)
> dogs on the hatch, cranked shut with the handwheel.  The dogs clamp onto
> the rim of the trunk, holding the hatch closed.  So, as the hatch is
> pressed tighter by sea pressure, there is more room for the dogs to clamp
> further, but the wheel itself isn't pushed in-- it's part of the hatch/dog
> assembly on the inside of the hatch itself.  Undoing the dogs completely
> allows the hatch to open, with the dogs/wheel going with it (and lurking
> to bang the unwary as they climb out).

My head still hurts from the memories (as in...more than once).

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