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Originally Posted by JohnRPollard
Tomaz,
I like them.
When I speak of hard dodgers, I mean one that is a solid structure with a solid frame, solid-paned windows, solidly attached to the deck or incorporated into the deck design at construction. On a fibreglass boat it would normally be constructed of fibreglass (probably cored), and on a metal boat it would be steel or aluminum. With polycarbonate (Lexan) window panes.
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On that boat in the article you mentioned that thing looks horrible. Sadly that's the case for hard dodgers on anything under 40'. The only way you can make one that looks OK is to have it so low that you'd need seriously agile young muscles to duck under the thing. Admittedly some soft dodgers also have this problem but at least you can fold them away when not needed. What's need is some kind of fold up centre section but this is hard to engineer in a way that would not overly weaken the structure.
A sea capable of removing your soft dodger does not need to get much bigger to be able to take out your hard.
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