Nice photo.

Our viking hatches haven't been cross threaded, they simply failed at the lip from age. Bit done with that game! The Benson hatch is made of thicker material, is a drop in replacement for the stock hatch (from what I've been told), your crew can't cross thread it and I can leave the vaseline at home. Oh, and it is only a quarter turn to open, and I'm pretty convinced ~80% of the time water is only getting in there from rain, considering less than 20% of races are in big breeze or waves.