[sluggo]

I have a 2006 tiara 3600 Sovran with a hardtop.  It has 2 hatchs in it.  The one over the helm has some cracks behind the hatch.  They are just pencil thin at the surface.  The reason for my concern is, I noticed some water coming in on the beverage center.  We determined that water was coming thru these cracks and dripping on the beverage center.
the question is, how best to repair this.  Where I live I really dont have a 'yard', but we do have some guys that if you tell them what to do, it usually works out okay.
As they are really thin, I am thinking about taking a Dremel with a thin cutting wheel, and making a narrow grind of the crack.  Then taking some marine tex and filling the hole, and then painting the surface with Kiwi grip.  Thoughts?

I assume the cracks came from running the boat with the hatches up, and the wind putting pressure on the hatch and forcing it back.

TIA  Sluggo

[jclark003]

I want to make sure that is where the water is coming from first but either way makes sense to open up and epoxy the cracks. I've used evercoat and awlgrip to make similar repairs. Make sure you scuff around the cracks enough to get some coverage outward from the cracks.

If you can drop the headliner it might do you good to make sure the hatch frame isn't leaking. I would think moisture from surface cracks would soak into the coring, not run down and leak into the helm area. water leaking along the frame however could get picked up by the back side of the headliner and travel. M2C