[ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mayday on the Hudson and other ironies

[Michael Meltzer]

standard thickness should be about 3/4-1 inch in that area, OTHO the 1973 outsource with build all over the place, 1/32 sound like a
bad patch job with a single lay of glass, does it look like a patch came apart? maybe after the PO fix a grounding or a drop?

you are going to need the boat on real boat stands for a while, Find the limit of the thin area, step zero might be to cut it out,
fill the blast with a sand/epoxy mix, mat/glass over and flair, sand, epoxy overcoat. sound like you are going to need the cb trunk
opened. That might be the session, but you need to get the hull dried and the work done before the temp go below 50 at night.

Can you get a digital camera on it?, IIRC you are in the industry, can you get it into a yard and do you want to?

BTW, look under the cockpit and in the bow for the foam, some people have reported it missing, most case PO pulling it thinking it
was waterlogged.

MJM
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Subject: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mayday on the Hudson and other ironies


> Well folks we had a hell of a day, so far the best sailing day on the
> river,estuary, what ever.  Sailing along in the middle of the river we came about and
> suddenly went no where.  We heard banging in way of the centerboard and
> though it had come loose but it still felt like it was raising and lowering ok.
> But the banging did not stop so we pulled in sails and motered for home about 5
> miles away.  We stoped at the foot of  the Newburg/Beacon bridge to watch the
> tide action so we could time our eta suddenly water started to enter the boat.
>  With both pumps  and both engines running we high tailed it for home.  (Back
> to the old  2stk 4stk lots of hp not much hp and all that) we made it in 35
> min. By that time we had ankle deep water in the  cabin but since we talked
> about how great she floats (unsinkable and all that) I was not woried.  When we
> tide up at the dock it realy started to come in and we had to put in a 1/2hp
> sump pump to get a head of it,  Luckely   it was high tide and we got her on the
> trailer.  To everyones astonishment  a hole  the width of the keel an 3
> inches long helped empty the boat.  It is the very aft section of the keel starting
> at about one inch from where it fairs into the hull and the 3 inches down
> along the vertical edge of the keel just behind the centerboard trunk.  How it
> got there  no one knows it's in the damndest spot. One thing bugs me however the
> fiberglass in that  area is very thin not mor then a 1/32.  The void space is
> not very big maybe 11/2 gallons worth.  I'm tempted to fill it with concrete.
>  Now repairs and improvements.  Advice wellcome  comentary aswell.   Yours
> trully   High and Dry.
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