Dwight, I hope not! the stringers form an area that holds water that runs down the mast and it has caused the bottom of the bulkhead to rot. The mast step looks to be intact. I'll add the limber holes and try to cut out the rotten plywood but it may be behind and under the settee.
Joel Aronson 35/5 On Jan 27, 2013, at 3:37 PM, dwight veinot <dwightvei...@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote: Joel When you drill this limber hole I guess you will reach the same cavity under the mast where others have found rotted wood which had to be replaced the cavity filled with epoxy. Is that correct? I have heard of filling the cavity below the mast with concrete…much less expensive than epoxy, very strong in compression, and much less heat release on cure than epoxy but I don’t know how that turned out in the long run. Do you plan to plug the limber hole in summer so that water doesn’t get in from the bilge? I have no limber holes in the bilge of my 35 MKII so that between every pair of stringers there is a low spot where I need to sponge the water out if I want the bilge to be momentarily dry. Water enters from the stuffing box and first accumulates in the after low spots and then as more water accumulates in the bilge it moves forward to the mast…rain water also gets down the mast and into the bilge from the forward end. there is usually some water in the bilge which my bilge pumps can’t get Now it’s ice and probably will stay like that for a while yet. Dwight Veinot C&C 35 MKII, Alianna Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS ------------------------------ *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com<cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com>] *On Behalf Of *Joel Aronson *Sent:* January 27, 2013 4:47 AM *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com *Subject:* Re: Stus-List Limber holes Like Pat I justdiscovered there are no limber holes in the port stringers next to the mast. Has anyone else drilled we ones? Not much space for a drill! What type of tubing did you use? Joel 35/3 Annapolis On Thursday, December 20, 2012, Gary Nylander wrote: I guess they had other ideas. My 30-1 has a dinette on the port side. Under the forward seat, there was apparently a limber hole allowing any water from this area to go to the bilge - but it may only be there for running some electrical wires, as the junction block for mast wiring is under the seat - and there is a bilge pump in the sump adjacent. I drilled another hole to allow for drainage, as this is where my speed transducer is located and water comes in when I pull the transducer for cleaning. Under the aft seat, there is nothing. I tried to drill a hole for drainage, but there is a little box under the end of the seat which has been used to store flares, the horn, bilge pump handle for the cockpit pump, and some other stuff. I couldn't get the angle right to pass under this box without scaring myself about drilling through the bottom of the boat! So, any time there is water in the area (leaky windows - spills, etc.) the sponge comes out. I think it is fascinating how different the various boats are - still designed and built by the same team. The bilge of the 29 is quite different from the 30.... Gary 30-1 ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Pat Nevitt <javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'pnev...@gmail.com');> *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'cnc-list@cnc-list.com');> *Sent:* Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:14 AM *Subject:* Re: Stus-List Season is over Jim, I have a C&C 29 MKII (well actually I just sold it) and looking at your pictures I noticed something that might be of interest to you. Great job refinishing the cabin sole by the way. I did that to mine, but it didn't look near as nice as yours. The thing I wanted to bring to you attention is that when you look at the picture with the floorboards off so that you see the bilge, you will notice that there is a limber hole through the fiberglass stringer on the starboard side of the mast but there isn't one on the port side. I don't know about you, but the water frequently came down the mast and into the mast box but would spill over the sides and go into that void on the port side of the mast. Since there is no way for that to drain it would overfill and begin to soak into the bottom of the port bulkhead. I remedies this by drilling a limber hole on the port side and epoxying in a tube for the water to drain into the main sump. Solved the issue. I could never understand why C&C didn't put a limber hole on that side when they built the boat. Pat On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Rich C&C <r...@sailpower.ca<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'r...@sailpower.ca');>> wrote: Great pics as usual, Jim and excellent floor job. I’m interested that you refer to the bow of the boat as south and the stern as north…..?? Rich Knowles INDIGO - LF38 Halifax, NS *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com');>] *On Behalf Of *Jim Watts *Sent:* December 19, 2012 19:02 *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'cnc-list@cnc-list.com');> *Subject:* Re: Stus-List Season is over Here's a piece I put together a long time ago when I did the project on my last boat. http://members.shaw.ca/paradigmshift/floorboards.html -- Jim Watts Paradigm Shift C&C 35 Mk III Victoria, BC _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'CnC-List@cnc-list.com');> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'CnC-List@cnc-list.com');> -- Joel 301 541 8551 ------------------------------ No virus found in this message. 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