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Hope I can impose with a question. I don't know the terminology so bear with me. The part of the settee seats on both sides of the cabin that meet the hull where your ankles are when seated has developed cracks in the filler used to fair it with the hull. In fact, this is happening at the chart tabl...

I count 90 holes in the deck in Bryon's picture, including the largest one. Just out of curiosity, if I were to tap two or three hundred similar holes in V'ger's deck, would it be a simple process for the guys doing the straight epoxy coating work to fill the holes with straight epoxy? Or do the tes...

Thanks to everyone for their comments. I'll be going through the hammer routine this weekend and will take a few samples from the core as well. I watched and listened to a surveyor when I was surveying previous boats and he helped clarify what to listen for. I'll also more closely inspect the interi...

And here I am, a language professional, tongue tied in trying to get this across. More information about the condition of the deck and my assumptions may help. About 15% of the fiberglass has been exposed, in an area of the stern deck with lots of thru deck fittings, and thankfully no dark areas are...

The decks are being stripped down to bare fiberglass. The core is plywood and I'm pretty sure I have rot somewhere. The boat is thirty years old and I know this will be the first time the decks will have been taken down this far. So my question is at what point do I pot- before or after sanding the ...

Thanks to everyone for your comments. After some careful thought I did what came naturally- I outsourced. I found an inexpensive teak source in Thailand for my stantion base wood bases and will be using them for this and other projects.

Thanks again.

Warren

Bit of a coundrum here. I'm having my decks painted by pros. I've removed all deck hardware and am going to pot the holes with thickened epoxy. The problem is I'm under time constraints due to on-the-hard fees and want to begin potting immediately, have rethunk that. The decks will be sanded down to...

Byron, Now that makes sense. That is a covering board... I always thought the term as applied to the spacers between the deck and stantion base was a bit broad. My boards have been glassed over, although the salt in me prefers the look of yours. I'm thinking of stripping my bulwarks and going with o...

Byron, I've already removed half of the stantions so am fully committed to replacing the boards. That first picture from the BCC site was what inspired me to go with epoxy in the first place. For me the problem with the fabrication plans is that I have no idea how long it would take to assemble 16 b...

One of the main limitations I experience in owning and repairing a sailboat is that I'm living in a small apartment in central Tokyo, so power tools for the time being must remain in my fantasy workshop. Molds, however, are doable. One drawback of my plan is that by integrating the epoxy covering bo...

I would like to make molds for the 16 covering boards that are mounted between the stantion bases and the deck. Originally they were made of teak, but time has taken a toll and the need replacement. My idea is to make molds for each covering board, then fill the mold with epoxy, attach to the deck t...

This is great! Thanks for the obvious time and effort you put into making this crystal clear.

Warren
s/v Voyager of Yokohama

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Initially, I'm going at the stantions. and things are complicated by the fact that the stantion bases have a teak base sealed to the deck by what I suspect is 3M5200. I'm not sure yet, but the stuff is as hard as a rock. Also the boat was built in 1981 and I...

I'll soon be removing all hardware from the deck and wonder if someone can suggest a tape to cover the holes in the deck. Regular tape is not a good idea as it may be 3-4 weeks before I get to rebedding the hardware. I've heard of silver weather-resistant masking tape but am unfamiliar with its appl...