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    Cockpit stringer repair

    in TechTalk

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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...)

    Cockpit stringer repair

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    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 tutorials I've found online have been people cutting out the plywood flooring and replacing everything.

     

    Alternatively, could (should?) I just load the new crack up with more epoxy? This is right at the entrance to the companionway, so pretty high traffic.

     

    Thanks!

    Route 66

    in RaceTalk

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    Hotdogger has withdrawn and are having medicinal rums at Kawau.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.

    Dogs

    in MarineTalk

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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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    This Weekend's Achievements

    in MarineTalk

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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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    This Weekend's Achievements

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    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 excited for summer now.

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    reinforcing mast base

    in TechTalk

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    FYI, she's GOP (Glass Over Ply) not GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) 

     

    David, the aluminium would have to be pretty thick compared to say mild steel...?

     

    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 :D

    reinforcing mast base

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    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 would also then require some kind of barrier between the steel plate and aluminium mast. One suggestion was an ice cream container, since that would then catch any leaked water and I could sponge it out easily.

     

    Anyone else have thoughts?

     

    Thanks in advance :)

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    Pocket Offshore Cruisers

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    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/WimvanDijk.pdf you can google "Asfaloth Jouet 24" for more.

     

    My Stratus is faster than her but she was seaworthy. I will admit I experienced some regret choosing the Stratus -- I did have some fantasies of travelling the world in the Jouet, something I'm less confident to do in the boat I chose. Realistically, though, my goals right now are local racing, so the Stratus was the better choice. I'll get my ocean cruiser another day...

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