What I'm a'gonna do
FBBB --
Thanks to all for hints and suggestions. Here's what I'm'a'gonna do.
Daggerboard:
The daggerboard is two pieces of 3/4" AC glued smooth side to smooth
side. With the exception of filling the larger holes with epoxy/glass
goop it is unfinished. The working theory was that the the "mirror"
sheets of ply would work in opposite ways and the overall shape would
be relatively stable. The fact is that it's receive rough treatment;
being left propped at odd angles twist and warp, or entombed in thick
ice where it was subjected to unknown stresses.
It's going to get a warm bath and then laid and weighted on a flat
floor while I go into the city to do some errands. I'll snap a before
an after pic and you all can be the judge of weather it's better or
worse for the "fix" ;-)
Mooring anchor point:
I'm not especially concerned with the strength of the false stem,
it's well bedded in epoxy/glass, deeply filleted, there's about 6
inched of contact with the sheer clamp, and the glass from the bottom
and topsides wraps from 3 directions making for about 18 oz of glass.
So, I'm going to bored a hole, then I'm going to use a round router
bit to hollow it out, and then fill the hollow with epoxy/glass as a
chafe/reenforcement ring, and round the edges with a narrow strip of
sanding belt.
Drain holes:
I found an abandoned dinghy with a couple of S.S. drain fittings, the
kind that create suction when they're opened. I'm taking a bunch of
wretches down to her and see if I can get them out.
YIBB,
David
CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
134 West 26th St. 12th Floor
New York, New York 10001
http://www.crumblingempire.com
(212) 247-0296
Thanks to all for hints and suggestions. Here's what I'm'a'gonna do.
Daggerboard:
The daggerboard is two pieces of 3/4" AC glued smooth side to smooth
side. With the exception of filling the larger holes with epoxy/glass
goop it is unfinished. The working theory was that the the "mirror"
sheets of ply would work in opposite ways and the overall shape would
be relatively stable. The fact is that it's receive rough treatment;
being left propped at odd angles twist and warp, or entombed in thick
ice where it was subjected to unknown stresses.
It's going to get a warm bath and then laid and weighted on a flat
floor while I go into the city to do some errands. I'll snap a before
an after pic and you all can be the judge of weather it's better or
worse for the "fix" ;-)
Mooring anchor point:
I'm not especially concerned with the strength of the false stem,
it's well bedded in epoxy/glass, deeply filleted, there's about 6
inched of contact with the sheer clamp, and the glass from the bottom
and topsides wraps from 3 directions making for about 18 oz of glass.
So, I'm going to bored a hole, then I'm going to use a round router
bit to hollow it out, and then fill the hollow with epoxy/glass as a
chafe/reenforcement ring, and round the edges with a narrow strip of
sanding belt.
Drain holes:
I found an abandoned dinghy with a couple of S.S. drain fittings, the
kind that create suction when they're opened. I'm taking a bunch of
wretches down to her and see if I can get them out.
YIBB,
David
CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
134 West 26th St. 12th Floor
New York, New York 10001
http://www.crumblingempire.com
(212) 247-0296