Joel,
I recommend grinding and glassing the keel, too. Just applying thickened resin is unlikely to survive long.
Here's a page I created when doing similar repairs on a friend's boat: Note the resin-only patch that a previous owner had tried.
I used polyester resin instead of epoxy. I tend to use epoxy only in cases where I think I will need the adhesive characteristics. When grinding and laying up a cloth patch, that's not necessary. I prefer to keep the hull to one family of resin to make future repairs easier.
- George
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On 7/5/20 7:34 AM, Joel Grist wrote:
?Your message has made me realize I made a leap in logic. ?When I pulled the swamped boat onto the sloped sand, water came out the traveler holes. But I didn’t see the source of the leak and assumed.
There’s a place on the right chine I can press through. ?There is a place on the keel that gives to pressing. ?These are the big ones I found on visual/manual inspection and must be repaired before a pressure leak test would do any good, I imagine.
I’m attaching pictures here and hope they come through.
The one on the keel is a terrible picture. My plan on it is thickened epoxy.
On the chine, it’s going to need some fiberglass for sure.
This is a first time epoxy project for me. I was hoping to get some smaller quantities of resin hardener and glass cloth at a big box hardware store. All they had was JB Weld and Loctite products and no glass cloth. I’ll look at Total Boat next but if there are any other ideas on getting smaller quantities I’d be much obliged.
Thank you also to Charlie for your suggestions. I’ll look specifically for your recs for thickened epoxy. But it turns out I have a ways to go before I can even get to a leak test to determine if those traveler holes are even a source.
My many thanks,
-Joel
On Jul 4, 2020, at 10:57 PM, Breezebender via groups.io <monicademeo@...> wrote:
?Are you sure those holes for the traveler go through the Interior hull? ?They shouldn’t. ?Can you send a picture of the damage? ?Where else is it leaking?
On Jul 4, 2020, at 2:54 PM, Signal Charlie <lewis.kent@...> wrote:
?Worth repairing. We would inject thickened epoxy out of a caulk cartridge into a syringe, then use the syringe to slowly fill that hole. Thickened epoxy brands are either TotalBoat THIXO or Pettit FLEXPOXY
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