Timberwolfy
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Thanks KM. I've decided to layer over it with carbon-reinforced glass for two reasons: 1) it'll never, EVER break again. 2) my mate's offered me materials and a lesson. I've got some other fibreglass repairs to make, so it will be nice to be able to practice where no one will see it, under the guidance of someone who knows what they're doing. The woodworking stuff seems a lot less daunting to do on my own (says the woman who didn't know what diameter screws to buy...)
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Cool. Thanks for the advice David
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Yep, that's been suggested to me. This looks to be the same wood: https://www.bunnings.co.nz/pinetrim-45-x-20mm-h3-1-dressing-grade-pine-vertical-cavity-batten-per-linear-metre_p00164718 Or would I need to find some kind of treated, marine version?
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You assume correctly. The only thing is that I have a drawer that slots in underneath it, so whatever I do can't get too thick.
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I should add: that's an old photo. The crack has now been filled with epoxy and screwed from the bottom. It split running lengthwise along the bottom of the wood.
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Is sistering where you put another piece of wood next to the original? This pic is looking up at the underside of the cockpit floor.
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Hi everyone, I have a glass-over-ply boat with stringers running under the cockpit floor to support it. One of the stringers was cracked, so yesterday I filled the crack with epoxy and went to screw it together. At that point, I learned that the screws I'd chosen were too big in diameter and have now split the stringer. I'm thinking of replacing it. It measures 661x45x20mm, but I can't see how it's attached to anything, so I'm not sure how to remove or replace it. I assume it's been screwed in somewhere, but there is nothing visible. The cockpit floor is in great shape, and all of the tutoria
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Awesome. Good on'em.
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Hotdogger has withdrawn and are having medicinal rums at Kawau. Saw the SR's hooning along as we decided to turn in. Sin keeps meowing... Lumpy out there! Glad to hear Attitude crew are okay.
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we'll miss ya, Phil! come to Kawau if things lighten up!
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I am keen (ideally for 100nm), but I've lost my crew! anyone know anyone who knows anyone who likes little boats and talkative Americans??
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Pussy poo... I don't like that combination of words ???? Pile moorings people have it rough! We get annoyed at each other for using "our" trolley (because if you brought it down two hours ago, obviously it's still yours...), and everyone else gets annoyed with us for not taking them back up! It's a hard life. Some of us even have to row to our boats. ????
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(PS please ignore my incorrect headsail number )
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Singlehanded race last weekend. I finished, so I'm calling it a success! Got the kite up twice and successfully gybed it three times, too!
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awww Puff, I will miss that beautiful girl. I put a kite up solo for the first time!! gybed it pretty successfully once, and fully unsuccessfully the second time, with a pretty bad drop, too. doesn't matter because nothing broke and I kept it out of the drink. also did my longest solo sail: met the cruising racers up in Fowlhouse Bay in Rakino Saturday night. I am stiff and sore and covered in bruises... a good weekend!
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I'm just grateful that far more experienced people than myself made the same mistake. thanks for the support! good to hear you're done messing around with the aliens
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that's worse than I looked after scraping my hull! I had no idea how blue I was and proceeded to go to the shops. the guy at Burnsco asked if I was painting myself or my boat. my accomplishments? first single-handed race! which also happened to be my first single-handed sail, ever! I was part of the golden confused bunch who read the race docs wrong and sailed the wrong course. so, while it was a bummer to not accomplish my goal of also finishing my first solo race, I did pick the long course, and it was pretty cool to get out to Iliomama and back to Westhaven all by myself. really exci
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thanks all for the feedback! I have a lot to think about... looking to do this project ASAP. will have a chat with some people and do some reading. I found this site, which I thought was really interesting, if anyone is into the chemistry aspect of this subject: https://www.corrosionpedia.com/galvanic-corrosion-of-metals-connected-to-carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymers/2/1556
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yup, mast first, hatch second... hatch should be as easy as pulling it out and re-sealing it. key word: should.
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awww bugger I thought GRP was Glass-Reinforced Ply... it made sense in my head. I would very much like my mast to not escape out the bottom
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Hi All! Inexperienced new owner here. I've got a keel-stepped mast on a GRP boat (Stratus 747). My forward hatch and the mast both leak a little (they're on the to-fix list), and the water coming in has softened the keelson enough that it is compressing/cracking around the base of the mast (right-top side of it in the pic is the worst of it). More experienced friends have had a look and so far no one is panicking, but we all agree it's a problem that needs fixing. An idea I'm liking a lot is adding a steel plate along the keelson to reinforce the wood and spread the load, but this woul
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awesome, David, thank you she looks great!!
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this makes me so happy!!!!!!!! awesome.
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That book looks awesome Zozza. It's on my list too now When I was buying my boat I had look into a Jouet 24 for sale up in Weiti. She needed some love on the exterior (hadn't been touched in a few years, so she'd grown a reef, running rigging was dead and standing rigging was questionable), but the interior was apparently pristine (I didn't end up having a look). she'd been sailed here from Denamrk in the late 80's. over the course of researching her I discovered more of the story, unfortunately mostly not in English: http://www.ontdekkingsschrijver.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WimvanDij
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Armare Ropes Single Handed Weekend 7&8th October
Timberwolfy replied to Ponsonby Cruising Club's topic in RaceTalk
aw shucks! not until Sunday haha
