Bob
thanks for the info.
well I might be starting this coreing project sooner than later.
I didn't want to start the refit of my boat till I had all the funds.
But the opportunity of a free space inside a pole barn with a
concrete floor could be in my near future. It's not insulated or
heated but the weather should be fine for the next month or two.
Has anybody tried vacuum bagging ?
west systems sell a kit with a venturi vacuum generator, runs off of
a compressor.
Spent a couple minutes on the deck this afternoon and there are a lot
of mushy feeling decks under my feet and the "dull thump" of a
plastic hammer really told the story.
Foredeck and some side deck.
Has anybody done their fore deck with also replacing that 2 x 4
that runs fore and aft under the deck ?
The cockpit has about 2 inches of water in it, just the way the boat
sits, so don't know about that yet, but the bridge deck and cabin top
sounded solid and the stern sounded solid up to the winch stands.
I was also happy to find that the areas around the chain plates
sounded like solid glass.
long enough post.
Steve K.
#196
--- In T27Owners@..., "Bob" <screeminbob@...> wrote:
Side walls are diffinitly not cored as I have removed all ports and
also patched a crude hole that was hacked out for a shore power
plug
in the hanging locker. Some if not all of the cabin top is cored
but
I can't say where or how much as mine is solid (not squishy like my
decks) and I'm not getting into them.
Bob
SV Gabba Hey
1964 #90
--- In T27Owners@..., "Steve" <skolar@> wrote:
To Caleb and Adam
I'm not pressing the issue but when I or we or somebody starts
recoreing the roof of the cabin and asks is this solid fiberglass
here
or cored here or there, I would like to be able to give sound
advice,
thats all.
Actually I'll need the advice.
I have yet to cut open anything on my boat, but if the wife and I
don't
have to tap the boat rebuild fund I plan on doing it this winter.
So I can dream about fiberglass work, is the "area" LOL! around
the
mast and hatch over the v-berth and it's side walls solid glass
or
cored ?
Is the main cabin roof and side walls solid or cored ?
If any of the above answers are cored, what thickness is the
coreing
and what material was it?
If my memory serves me (not) when rebedding the ports years back
I
really don't remember coreing in the side walls.
Steve K.
