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05-20-2005, 04:49 PM
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Re: O.K. you f/g experts, I need some help.
UG! That's not good, but it's not the end of the world.
Vacuum Bagging is the way to fix that baby. Stll with the long run it will be a pain. 
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05-20-2005, 09:21 PM
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Re: O.K. you f/g experts, I need some help.
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As far as your photos …. Yikes and yikes again !!! That one above is one ugly looking picture . Did anyone ever tell you how that may have occurred ??
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05-22-2005, 12:09 PM
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Re: O.K. you f/g experts, I need some help.
Billybob;
I have been watching this thread with great interest. You have been given some good advice in general but the one thing that seems to be missing is the root cause of the problem. In all my years of boat building and repair we would allways try to discover the cause and extent of the damage before making a plan for repair. Blindly slapping a layer of glass on a delaminated section of hull may or maynot fix the problem. Unfortunately your pictures are not quite good enough to really make an educated guess but what they might show is 2 possible causes of your problem. One is that at some time in your boats history it sustained a severe impact in the area of the damage and caused what is known as interlaminate shear. Which is a delamination of the glass layers. And second ( please don't flame me for this) poor lamination from the builder. If what I see in the pictures is the glass looking very dry and whiteish on the strake then one of these is most likely the cause of your problem. If it was me doing this job the first thing I would do is try to get the area preped back to a solid laminate and then you will really know the size and extent of your work ahead. Bill
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#24
05-23-2005, 09:05 AM
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Re: O.K. you f/g experts, I need some help.
Well Bill, you're right I will have to grind back til I get to a good bond and I'm just hoping it doesn't go much further.You can see I will have to go forward and up a ways anyway.
As for the cause? Have a seat and grab a beer: It was a fall evening and the blues had been hammerin the bunker at Bpt harbor all week, so I headed out of Milford in a hurry to snag some bunker before it got dark.It was real choppy and I was going faster than I normally would because I was alone.I heard a thump, stopped and saw something bobbing in my prop wash, tilted up the motor, just a few scratches, figured I hit a floating log, and went and fished. I pulled the boat out the next day cause I was borrowing a slip and that's when I realized what happened. I took it to Norwalk Cove Marina which is a big yard but the manager is a friend of a friend.He looked at it and told me that at his rates, he would total the boat - I really didn't want that.One of his guys says "I remember that boat, I painted it a few years ago".Seems a guy had the boat hull painted and repowered then a few weeks later he brought it back with some serious bottom damage but noone remembers what specifically happened.Their opinion was that it was a "Friday Boat" with an original layup problem - but who knows, and it took close to 30 years to show? Anyway, the guy took the new power off and sold it to a guy who used to work at the boatyard. This guy repaired it and sold it to a guy who was going to restore it.This guy ended up restoring a diesal inboard instead and my hull sat in his yard for a few years until I bought it. So, who knows? You love these old Seacrafts and all the history that goes along with them, but this one has a little more history than I would like [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] But Bill you're right, the surface has this whitish look and doesn't look like there was any adhesion there.Original layup or bad repair, I don't know.Don't know the circumstances of the first damage either.I wish I had gone back to get the piece that ripped off, too. So, I'm left with a bit of a job on my hands. Bill
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