Recent content by fubar

I bought 8" at the beginning and it will fit but look too faking big for just patching the mast step. I ended up getting a 5" one installed. Ports are not flexing the same as the rest of deck and don't think there are rules on what kinda port you installed. Pushing the agenda from an evil...

Sand, right... We do need engineers to design boats. This boat indeed snapped together in a weekend during drinking.

Yes, it did grind thru. If you look close, there is a small hole at the conner of mast step, where water came out. I duct taped vaccum there to suck acetone out pouring from top, and glass taping inside the tube from above, very dark coal mine to work with. So tempted to cut up a hockey...

Replaced old boom vang strap.

My squeeze for next season. There you go...

Too late indeed. After inspection port, blow dry for a week, patch the hell around the donut, now down to 142 lbs. Yup, some 40 yrs old water in the cracked bottles. Bailer added, deck plate and cleats, 15:1 vang, boom sleeve. Dust up the garage sanding, keeping lemon hull colour just for...

There is a moist meter you can get for hull, they do work...Costed me few hundred bucks maybe 15 years ago to make me sleep better. But after playing with it for some time, I say a few bucks hammer + some white hair can do the job. Kinda like grandma way to picking watermelon, slight tap...

paid couple hundred bucks, only able to do a knocking test all around, dry deck and hull is that all I know.

I need to re-read the rules again.... thanks bud.

Now, question. Why the hell nobody put inspection port on the transom???

Well, no magic mushroom inside. My kid is yelling "save the turtles" when I dig out all the crap from inside.

Pickup a 2xxxx series hull. 20lbs overweighted. Mast step drinks a cup of scotch in matter of seconds. No inspection port installed. Ordered an 8" port online, will power up the jigsaw once in. What do I expect from opening up the hull after 45 years?