Our boat was trucked from Racine, Wisconsin, a long ride and you have to
assume there is going to be some movement re the keel and hull. Upon
arrival, as expected, there was the usual keel joint crack along the
front 2/3rd.....had the keel bolts torqued which closed the gap then I
took the angle grinder and cleaned the surface 2" above and below the
crack.... then took 'glass mat cloth' soaked in West System resin and
wrapped all the way around the keel and keel box (crack)....let that
cure overnight and then took some thickened West resin and faired over
the cloth....next day faired that with a palm sander and it has been
that way for the past 7 sailing seasons.....no 'smile', no 'crack', no
Spring hassle.
Bob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2012/10/18 9:45 AM, Hoyt, Mike wrote:
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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