Chuck My old Niagara 26 once had a leaking joint and torquing bolts solved that but it needed rebedding. I loosened nuts 2 inches, raised boat 1.5 inches, cleaned the gap, filled with 5200, dropped the boat and retorqued. Never had a problem again. A lot easier to do in a 4000lb 26 foot boat On current boat there are no leaks and bolts are tight. I always get a small crack in fairing on leading 1/3 of keel at keel hull joint. Have used G Flex thickened with West 407 the last two seasons to refair which has helped but not stopped the crack. Am interested to hear more of the reinforced cloth style job done on Resolute. May put a couple layers of glass in rather than thickened epoxy. Joint seems sound and is not a lot of movement but would be nice to know it does not crack every year. This is on my J/27. Mike
________________________________ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Chuck S Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:15 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 115 new keel joint video Good video. Did they wrap the keel joint with glass? Missed seeing the fairing process. Resolute used to require an annual grind and refairing. It never leaked, but the joint opened up each year from sailing pressure on that long lever. When Resolute had keel work, the yard wrapped the joint with two layers of re-enforced fiberglass. I've touched bottom since and she remains very strong w no sign of the old joint. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ
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