Disclaimer:Definitely good to hear it is a good boat! We're all pretty eager to give this a shot.
I filled the mast tube with water and definitely didn't have to wait a couple of hours to see the results. The water dropped quickly and highlighted a pretty large crack in the mast tube with a hole at the base probably .5-1cm across. You can see it on the top of the inside mast tube and right side where the water is beading up. I cut back some of the sprayed in foam just to see how dry it was and surprisingly it felt pretty dry both by the mast tube and the stern. The bases of the styrofoam blocks are certainly still holding water as I can feel it with deeper compression. Next up will be the actual leak test.
I had planned on replacing the backer blocks for all the hardware and the gudgeon is missing it's backer block entirely. I've seen some people switch to the new bracket? The boat actually came with two rudder assemblies so I was thinking keeping the original gudgeon would be more useful. I'm guessing press the backer blocks to the fiberglass with some 5200 and screw in the hardware once cured? Is it the same with the coaming?
If I can get away without splitting the hull I'm sure it would get me in the water a lot quicker this year, but I'm starting to wonder with the mast tube hole if it will be necessary. I saw one forum where someone mentioned running a dehumidifier taped to a piece of dryer vent tube run into the hull to dry it, would create airflow and dehumidify all at once. We haven't been leaving it outside yet as we're still hitting 30's - 40's at night (snowing while I'm writing this). Would you just turn it upside down to leave it outside?
Thanks for all the help, I can't believe how much info I've pulled from this website so far.
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