shiny, glossy, glassy, bright, polished, gleamin

[mariner]

I used CPES to seal the side deck core (what was left of it anyway) after letting it dry out for many weeks. Then filled in the void with West system, then drilled, etc.

I have no personal interest in the company. The CPES wicks into the plywood side deck core.

http://www.rotdoctor.com/products/cpes.html

Cool, thanks west marine also makes some thing like this that I may get... Going there this Saturday ! Check book look out!

[mariner]

Everyone should read this post, it appears to be the most comprehensive I have seen.

http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-main ... -tape.html

My appologies for reposting I hope they don't mind.

[Alanhod]

Nice!

I was not sure what everyone was talking about with Butal till now.

Thanks
Alan

[mcrandall]

One more time in case you all missed and are interested:


$60 for a 12 roll box "Buy it now" on EBay. Free shipping. More there if you want it. Comes in the original manufacturer packaging, looks great, thumbs up from me.

Pretty good deal at $5 a roll. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0344821823

[mariner]

So, I finally got around to getting the boat over my house to work on her, I had stainless steel backing plates made for all of the deck hardware , removed all of the deck hardware , cleaned all of the existing through hull holes by using one size drill bit larger and then filled all of the holes with epoxy, this took all day. There were a few spots that the epoxy just socked in like a sponge...where it kept going is a mystery! The deck plates where the standing rigging (shrouds) were attached revealed a huge surprise, port side the holes were huge compared to the bolts and starboard side looks like the builder made an error and r-edrilled without ever fixing the first set of holes, just some caulk (which did not go through all of the way to the liner). Check out the pics!





the screws for the mast hinge plate almost came out with my fingers!, I believe that I will bed screw inserts and ditch the wood screws. My guess is that the whole block will soak up the epoxy like a sponge also!



The existing through hull hole was filled and will be re-drilled for the scan-strut, right now I needed a solid surface so I could actually drill a large hole! any suggestions on a good bit so i don't tare the edges and get a nice smooth large diam hole ? - pics to follow.