[ham] [Rhodes22-list] hole in keel mystery

[Michael Meltzer]

I think the hollow was a patch, it sound like a PO broke off a piece and repaired it?, the area should be solid if I understand you
right about the location, I would also not use form their, you need the strength for a grounding. May I subject that you shot a few
1/4 to 5/8 holes into the cabin before repairing the damage, after glassing over, from the cabin side inject a sand/epoxy mixture
thought the holes you made by loading up "blank" caulk gun cartages, use slow hardener to keep the heat and "kicking" down.

Now that the centerboard is in play, then are more problem, I try to help but their are problem dealing piecemeal here.

Todd, IIRC your boat is about the same year and you did some pictures of the keel(the one I remember had the area in question
blocked), could you repost them? maybe with the area inquestion highlighted, it would help to have something to point to, also, I
suspect the rigging guild picture for the cb line is going to be needed, the blocks in their might be long gone.

MJM


PS. take it all with a grain of salt, I still in guessing mood.
PSS. Your rudder is a good temple for the CB, IIRC they were both coming out of the same mold.

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> Okay everyone  the area in question is as follows.  ( Son away at camp with
> dig. cam. hence no pics yet) Looking at the boat from the side  and from for.
> to aft the keel runs along the bottom then turns up to meet the hull. The
> centerboard trunk is housed in there but does not go all the way aft  Itstops about
> 8 inches from the trailing edge of the keel which is vertical  . Now picture
> a chunk of that trailing edge missing at the point  about one inch bellow the
> hull. The centerboard trunk  has not been damaged and the whole keel/trunk
> area is sold balest/layed up glass and dense with material.  Even the lower part
> of the keel  behind the trunk along the very bottom is sold glass.  But  at a
> point about 5 inches up from the very aft botttom of the keel going up to the
> hull  is hollow right up to where it meets the hull. This void is the width of
> the keel bellow the hull  and I have a  pump with a 6 inch long suction hose
> jamed in there to pick up any  water.   This is the lowest  place in my boat.
> My battery sits just forward of that spot on the right looking aft along the
> trunk. One small detail I forgot to mention.  The centerboard is at the bottom
> of the river.  Now we did get hung up in some soft bottom shallows briefely
> but pulled up the board fired of the engine and  were on our way.  But later on
> in the middle of the river we did a jib and suddenly went nowhere. We think we
> hit metal object on piece of debries. It got tangled in the centerboard  slot
> area and came around and knocked a hole  in  the bottom,  Or it could have
> been the board itself.  The hole is an easy fix. Reconstruct the area with
> fiberglass cloth and so on and fill part of the void with expandable foam giving it
> some density.  As for the board I guess I'll call Stan for a used one.
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