Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Roughing it
Ripped out the sole, bought a bunch of crappy lumber from Home Depot to make stringer templates. I think that the Woody template looks good but isn’t exact enough for this sort of work. Looks like I’ll have to make another one with just the bare essentials to get proper alignment. One thing that’s irking me is that I don’t have all of my parts to do this job. I don’t know why I thought I didn’t need to have things like engine mounts or fuel filter to do the install.
While ripping out the sole I noticed a bit of popped glass tape by the mast step and decided to investigate. Off came a thing strip of glass and out came 6 sopping wet pieces of teak that make up the “breast hook” of the mast step (I might have that technically wrong…).
The good news is that while they are wet, they are not rotted. Once they dry out I’ll just re-pot them in a bunch of epoxy with some proper glassing. Popped glass due to ice expansion seems to be a recurring theme on this boat.
The stringers are another source of anguish due to the strange engine placement on the T30. Weight and balance wise, it makes perfect sense but as for redesigning a sole, what a pain in the ass!
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