Just found you guys, and its like dejavu...LOL I'm right about where you guys are in your refit, except you guys make way better videos and much nicer surroundings...good luck, you are doing a fine job, I'll be watching and sub'd! also my son is a senior at PSU...are you guys in Pa?
This business of trying to dry the core by drilling holes and then syringing epoxy is totally useless - I've seen these types of "repairs" time and again with the only result being a damp core with a grid pattern of vertical "stalagtites" bridging the top and bottom glass laminates. Even if the core could dry the epoxy simply does not penetrate laterally into it beyond one or two millimeters at best.
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Just found your channel. You guys are lovely!
Cool, good work. Nice you got the wife doing Vanna White!
How about using closed cell foam core as a replacement? Surely this would never rot!
I wish you had put a link to the company you order your fiberglass from so I could pull them up.
Thanks for the feedback, I added the link in the description.
Why did you go back and forth between balsa and plywood?
Plywood will normally be used in higher stress areas. For example: at the mast step, below the windlass, and below winches or sail tracks.
Just found you guys, and its like dejavu...LOL I'm right about where you guys are in your refit, except you guys make way better videos and much nicer surroundings...good luck, you are doing a fine job, I'll be watching and sub'd! also my son is a senior at PSU...are you guys in Pa?
Thanks for watching! We are in Maryland but I graduated from PSU in 2008.
Errant Comma great...you guys have a head start on me, but once she's done, I'm retired...look forward to your progress...cheers!
What is PSU ? Sorry ı am from Turkey.
Engin Hergül Pennsylvania state University
I did mine from underneath. The job from hell! I did get very good at it.
you should have used screws to hold down then later removed them then filling in the screw holes!!
You clearly have no idea how much you’ve destroyed the structure of your deck by piecing the outer skin back together in little chunks
For future viewers: At the VERY least sand the entire repaired area down smooth and apply an overall layer of 1708 in epoxy.
This business of trying to dry the core by drilling holes and then syringing epoxy is totally useless - I've seen these types of "repairs" time and again with the only result being a damp core with a grid pattern of vertical "stalagtites" bridging the top and bottom glass laminates. Even if the core could dry the epoxy simply does not penetrate laterally into it beyond one or two millimeters at best.
Yes I agree, that attempt was a total waste of time, I ended up cutting that core out anyway and replacing it.
F THAT