Buck
Woodcraft
120 49th Street,
Marathon, Fl. 33050
Phone: 305-743-4090
Fax: 305-743-2951
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Where Did Buck Woodcraft's
Stock Door Order Page Go?
Click here.
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Now
you can configure, price out and order almost any
single-panel boat door you need right on our website.
Just click on one of the two choices below to
visit an easy-to-use boat door calculator that fits your
situation:
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If you want to match a new door to an
existing cutout, or if you know exactly how big a cutout
you're going to have --
click here.
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If you don't already have a cutout,
but simply need a door that matches a particular set of
outside dimensions --
click
here.
Either way, you'll find it's a piece of cake
to get exactly the single-panel boat door you need, without
having to pay anything extra for design fees or set-up charges.
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Door Size Advice
Where Did Buck
Woodcraft's Stock Door Order Page Go?
Well...we did away with it for a number of reasons. First, we had
gotten so far behind in updating the stock door page that it became
clear we'd never catch up. And not only that, but even though we had a
bunch of stock designs, the great majority of them never got
purchased after the original custom doors they were based on were
produced. Boats being boats, especially older ones, it's rare that any
two of them share identical parts. And thirdly, we've gotten pretty
darned efficient at designing single-panel custom doors, to the point
where our $45 custom door set-up fee was hardly justified.
So we decided to simplify the whole process by letting you spec out
the exact single-panel door you need right online, without any extra
set-up fees or design charges. And we also decided to ship all our doors
via UPS Ground anywhere in the U.S.A. (except for Alaska & Hawaii) for a
single flat rate of $25. That alone will save most buyers money.
It's true that we have had to increase the base price of our
single-panel doors somewhat to account for increased component costs to
us from our suppliers. But taking everything into account overall, we
hope this new approach to the boat-door part of our business will end up
giving our customers the best quality and value in the market.
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions, and if you have
any on this subject, please drop me an
email.
Thanks very much,
John Arbuckle
Buck Woodcraft, Inc.
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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
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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
built-in drains). |
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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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Your Privacy & Security
To keep it short and simple:
- We will not share your personal and/or financial information with
anyone, ever.
- Any personal and/or financial information about you that ends up on a
piece of paper in our office gets shredded as soon your order is
processed.
- You won't ever get unsolicited (i.e., junk) email from us.
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