Nice - that is an old boat. Did you jettison the kid..?...or is that YOU swimming and your dad jettisoned YOU?!
We have a couple of 4-digit boats here in our group.
You are all invited to the Flathead Lake Laser Championship in NW Montana. It is not the District 22 Championship this year, but we hope for a healthy turnout and some good racing in a fantastic setting.
Have you been to Flathead Lake?
Free camping on the lawn of North Flathead YC...
REGATTA:
We had a fantastic weekend, with a great bunch of people as well as great sailors participating. Women, Juniors, Seniors, Masters. We all left completely exhausted after a weekend of 180 degree and 360 degree shifts, then big winds and 4 foot waves. Northern thermals, southern cold...
51 feet of Herrshoff goodness!
We had just the best time. The Lodge assigned Captain Jarett to tell us about the boat, get us off the dock, and show us how to raise the sails and trim, then he essentially just let us sail her! Amazing how relaxed he seemed!
We had nice breeze, puffs, a...
Yeah, that's very interesting. When you have the stuff in your hand, it's dry and brittle and light. As crumbly as the stuff was in the stern, I wouldn't be surprised if the mast step glue is marginal.
I'll see if I can reach in there from the centerboard well and take a pic.
Another...
Also this weekend on Flathead, and thankfully not competing with our Districts, is a wooden boat show in the little town of Lakeside on the west shore.
Tonight several Laser sailors, spouses, parents, and friends get to sail on the Q-class Nor'easter V. The winner of our July Whitefish regatta won the ride and invited all the rest of us along.
The Flathead Lake Lodge owns the only two Herreshoff-designed Q-boats, the Questa and the...
Yes, the two holes and a shop light worked well. We have itchy fiberglass arms and some epoxy in my hair, but it all worked out.
Did I mention to wear rubber gloves and glasses with epoxy? Please do.
Luckily, the mast step in this boat holds water for days.
We pushed the epoxy mix from inside the hull into the broken drain hole of the cockpit. The bottom hole on the hull is duct taped shut as a dam.
I cut some thin flat plastic from a salad container or something and shaped a dam for the cockpit side. When the opening was overfilled, I...
The two holes are for one face and one arm, two arms, or one light and one arm. Or two people with one arm each. A helper is very handy - a friend stopped by to help.
We cleaned out the joint areas with a wire brush on a drill, a Dremel with a brush fitting, a hand wire brush, and some very...
There was a lot of junk rattling around in the hull. It was the old foam / glue they used to bond the deck and cockpit to the hull. It's very light, almost foam-like, dry, and hard. I could see the pieces that fit around the curve of the drain hole inside the hull.
I just posted info about repairing the hull-deck joint, here... http://www.laserforum.org/showthread.php?t=34166
I kept going on the repair of this '79 hull so this thread is about fixing the cockpit drain hole and the hull separating from the deck at the rear of the cockpit.
Background...
I used West System 406 bonding thickener. Very very light fluff in a can. You add it to the epoxy after it's thoroughly mixed (which is why slow hardener is better), to the consistency you need for whatever job. Thinner for filling holes and grooves like the hull joint, very thick for...
Set up a mixing area. Read all the West System instructions about how it all works. Unless it's cold or you're only doing a tiny batch, use the slow 206 hardener.
Here's a melted stir stick and a wasted pot of expensive epoxy.
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