[Rhodes22-list] Void under mast foot planned or developed

[Sailor Joe]

Mary Lou, 

Good point not using bolts on the tabernacle.  

I assume the space under the plywood sandwich was unintended and plan on
filling the whole feature with plywood, glass mat and polyurethane.  

J
 

Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi Joe,
> You don't want to replace the screws with bolts. The idea is that if 
> for some reason you drop the mast or forget to move the pop-top 
> slider out of the way when lowering the mast, the screws will pull 
> out and not damage your cabin top. If you had the tabernacle bolted 
> and the mast came down, you could do some serious damage.
> 
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
> 
> At 12:40 PM 3/3/2009, you wrote:
> 
>>I just cut into the mast foot over the cabin.  Appears two sheets of 3/4"
ply
>>were partially rotted.
>>
>>Beneath the ply was about 1/4 " void, some hard stuff of undetermined
origin
>>was broken and chipped in art of the void.
>>
>>I'm guessing that was old epoxy perhaps.
>>
>>The void beneath the plywood should be filled, correct?
>>
>>Water had worked it's way into the three screw holes.
>>
>>Does anyone replace the screws with bolts?
>>
>>
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