Buck
Woodcraft
120 49th Street,
Marathon, Fl. 33050
Phone: 305-743-4090
Fax: 305-743-2951
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Introducing Buck Woodcraft's Installation-Ready
Nautilus/King Starboard Marine Doors
Custom Design
Quality At An Affordable Price
Boat Door Calculator #1
-- If you need to match a new door to an existing cutout,
click here.
Boat Door Calculator #2
-- If you know the outside dimensions of the door you want,
click here.
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Boat Door FAQs
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Do You Need A Truly
Custom Door?
10% Off The Base Price Of Any Single-Panel Door
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We've built a whole bunch of King
Starboard boat doors over the past several years
for boat interior and
exterior cabinets, coaming cutouts, center consoles, bulkhead cubbyholes
and the like.
Early-on, the process involved a lot of handwork -- and every boat door we
produced was a time-intensive custom product.
But
things evolved after we got our
CNC router a while back. Now -- with over 200 CNC-milled custom
boat door designs under our belt -- our design process has sped up
considerably.
So even though we've recently had to raise
our base door prices somewhat to reflect higher material costs,
we've done away with the $45 CNC set-up fee for the single-panel
doors that most of our customers buy.
So you get exactly
the boat door you need, without paying extra for a custom design.
And delivery got simpler too: We'll now
pack & ship your new door anywhere in the continental United States via
UPS Ground for a flat fee of $25.
The Basic Door
Standard Features
No matter what single-panel
door you need, the production and design basics are the same:
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All our door frames are
milled from 3/4"-thick King Starboard, and cut to either 1.5"
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2" in width. The inside edges are then routed out to accept a 1/2"-thick
King Starboard door panel so that it sits flush with the frame, and all
surface edges are given a radius. The result is a clean, low-profile
look, with nice tight tolerances between the frame and door
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In almost all
cases, we attach the door inset panel to the frame with
 stainless steel piano hinges. We can
also build your door with "dogs" instead of hinges (see
photo below, so you can lift
the door panel completely out of the frame -- very handy where space is
limited.
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Each door comes standard with a white Southco
polycarbonate non-locking slam
latch. Doors that are 30" and longer come standard with two latches for
extra security. We also offer a variety of latch options.
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We build your door in your choice of
five King Starboard colors at no extra cost:
White, Black, Sea Foam, San Shade or Dolphin Gray.
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Stainless steel piano hinges come standard on nearly
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If
you need a door panel that lifts out rather than swings on a
hinge, we can build it with "dogs" like these. No extra cost.
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As an option, we can pre-drill your door's frame for
the proper sized fasteners -- accurately and symmetrically spacing all
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"I
received an expertly packaged door and...was amazed at what I saw: A door custom-made for the
console of my Boston Whaler in the
exact color and shape as
promised!
The workmanship on the door is absolutely superb."
Paul
Mucciolo -- Daytona Beach, FL
"You guys do good work. Thanks
again."
John Host, Mako owner -- San Diego, CA
Before
& After Photos Of 23' SeaRay boat doors. To see more,
click here.
Stephanie Adderly, SeaRay owner -- Bermuda
Before & After Photos of Carver 44'
doors replacing fridge cabinet.
"We got rid of an ice maker that was
just wasting space and opened up some much-needed storage. The
turnaround time was great and the quality is outstanding."
Dennis Ficken, Carver 44' owner -- -
Olathe, KS
"Just a note to tell you how much I
appreciated doing business with you. Great customer service and the door
was delivered in perfect shape. It looks great on my boat and operates
perfectly."
Craig Schiemann, Boston Whaler owner --
Pleasant Hill, CA
"Will you please make me another door the same as the one just received?
It looks so good we have decided to replace the one right next to it."
Michael Walker -- Santa Ana, CA
Great work! I was very pleased that it turned out so well. Thanks
again.
Dale Dudash -- Sykesville, MD
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Optional Extras
Personalize your stock or custom door with these extras:
Visit our
Stock Door Order
Page Now
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Latch Options
- Add $8.00 -- Black Southco marine polycarbonate
non-locking slam latch.
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Vent Slots
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Pre-Drilled Frame
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| Buck Woodcraft Boat Doors -
Frequently Asked Questions |
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I'm replacing an old door, so I already have a cutout. I
realize my new door will be bigger than the cutout -- but how much
bigger?
Your new boat door's outside dimensions will
equal your cutout size plus the door frame's width. So as an example, if
your cutout measures 15"W x 20"L and you decide on a 2"-wide
frame, the completed door will measure 17"W x 22"L overall. If you go
with a 1.5" frame, you'll end up with outside dimensions that are a bit
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Will my new door's access opening be the same size as my
cutout?
No, it'll be smaller. If you choose a 2"wide
frame for your new door, your access opening will be 2" narrower and 2"
shorter than your cutout. For example, if your cutout measures 15"W x
20"L, your door's access opening will measure 13"W x 18"L. If instead
you go with a 1.5" wide frame, the access opening will be 13.5"W x
18.5"L.
Making the access opening smaller than the cutout
gives your installed door a neater appearance -- and pretty much
eliminates any contact with the typical cutout's rough-sawn fiberglass
or plywood edges. |
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I need for my new door to have an access opening of a
particular size. So how do I figure out how big the cutout needs to be
-- and what the door's outside dimensions must be -- to make that
happen?
Okay, another example: If you need an access
opening that measures 10"W x 10"L, add your frame size to those
dimensions to get your cutout size. If your new door gets a
2"-wide frame, your cutout size will need to be 12" x 12". To get the
total outside dimensions of your new door, add twice the frame
width to the access opening you need -- so a 10" x 10" access opening
for a door that has a 2"-wide frame will end up with outside dimensions
of 14" x 14".
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How far will my new King
Starboard boat door stick out from the surface I mount it on?
It'll protrude 3/4" inch from the surrounding console or bulkhead
area, which is the thickness of the door's frame. The door panel itself
is inset into the frame, so the frame and door panel are flush with each
other. For added strength and stability door panel rests against an
inner lip of the frame that's 1/4" thick and 3/8" wide. |
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Will my new boat door be waterproof?
No.
However -- because the door panel is inset into its frame against an
inner lip that's milled out to a fairly close tolerance -- your door
offers some resistance to the kind of incidental splashing that might
result when you're washing down your boat after a day's fishing or
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If I order vent slots, will they be angled down so water
can't splash straight through them?
No. We cut the vent slots straight through the door. The most
important reason for this is safety. An angled vent slot in a Starboard
door would present a sharp, knife-like edge that could easily draw blood
-- and we don't have a way to put a uniform, smooth radius onto that
edge. While it's true that water can get through these openings,
our slotted doors are typically either installed in something like a
hanging locker down inside the boat -- and (we hope) there's not much
risk of taking in water there. Or they're used as access doors for
anchor lockers, which themselves are usually wet anyhow (and also have
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Where do you position vent slots on
boat doors anyway?
We'll place them toward the upper
part of whatever door you order. If you're going to install your door so
that the long dimension is vertical, we need that information -- and we
need to know whether your door will open from right-to-left or
left-to-right. If your long dimension will be installed horizontally, we
need that information as well. |
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I might want to change my boat door's color sometime in
the future. What kind of paint works best on Starboard?
Sorry, none at all. No sort of paint we know of will adhere to
King Starboard. But so long as you choose a Starboard color you like to begin
with, you can count on it holding up without fading pretty much for the life of your
boat. |
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Can I just glue my new door into place with epoxy or something,
instead of attaching it with screws and such?
Nope. In much the same way that paint won't stick to King Starboard over the
long haul, neither
does anything else that we've tried -- including 3M-5200, silicone, nor various
flavors of "boat caulk." The King Starboard company does sell a product called "StarBond"
-- but it's expensive, requires an expensive "applicator" and in the
end, the product's instructions caution that the "join" should be supplemented
with mechanical fasteners. So really, we recommend you save your self
some money and aggravation and disappointment, and, uh, stick with
screws or other fasteners of your choice.
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Do You Need A Truly Custom
Door?
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If the door you need will be square or
rectangular, and if it will have just one door panel, we consider that
simply to be a standard, basic door -- and it won't cost you anything
extra in the way of design fees or set-up charges.
But if your dream door has multiple panels or even if it's only going
to have just one panel in some kind of weird trapezoidal sort of frame
along the lines of the doors shown below, then you really are looking at a
"custom" requirement. And you will incur some additional design and
set-up costs as a result. If you'll provide some detailed specs for us,
we'll be happy to work up a firm price estimate for you. Either give me a
call at 305-743-4090 (Mon - Fri, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time); or shoot
me an
email with details of what you need and I'll get back to you.
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1981
SeaRay 23' Center Console -- "Before & After" Boat Doors
April/May 2011 |
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| Anchor locker door "before": No air circulation, no
positive locking latch, badly weathered teak frame. |
Anchor locker "after": Vent slots for air
circulation, positive slam latch closure, stainless steel piano hinge,
all King Starboard frame & door panel. |
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| Instrument panel closure "before": acrylic panels,
teak frame in poor shape. |
Instrument panel "after": All King Starboard construction, including
sliding panels. |
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| Console side door "before": badly weathered acrylic
& teak. |
Console side door "after": All King Starboard frame
and door panel, sturdy stainless hinge, positive locking slam latch. |
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| Console double door "before": poorly aligned acrylic
panels, no positive closure latch, separate radio mounting panel, badly
weathered teak frame. |
Console double door "after": Integral radio mount
panel, all King Starboard frame & panels, stainless steel piano hinges,
positive panel closure with single slam latch. |
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