Joe, Love your post. I'm on my boat over at a slip on Broad Creek, Magothy River and struggling with several challenges onboard.
I saw some rips and holes in my genoa when sailing on Sunday. I thought I was clever, dropping the sail while tacking the boat solo onto the deck. I flaked it loosely and rolled it up, while the autohelm steered and then it started to rain harder and harder. I lifted the wet sail off the deck and put it on the dock. Waited till today, zero wind, to lift it back onboard and hoist the sail up the furler and shake out the rain water. Couple hours later, I got to lower the sail again and reflake it. It's not dry, but a lot smaller and less water going into my subaru wagon for the ride home. I hope to patch the small holes at home, but it may be shot. I'm also working on an electrical wiring issue and your post made me laugh out loud as I am going nuts with some old wiring issues. I don't have any advice, but I owe you a beer next we meet. Cheers, Chuck Scheaffer, Resolute 1989 C&C 34R, Magothy River, Md > On 10/25/2022 3:08 PM Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > > > Not looking forward to this, I thought I was done fixing this stuff ☹ > > The stock mast step does not come out without a lot of help from a hammer > and chisel, I spend days on my knees chopping it out. My new one won’t come > out either, it is thoroughly epoxied to the boat. I am not sure if I have > this issue, but if I do I’ll need to work around the mast step. The first > problem will be the 49 years of old oil, scum, and algae that have made that > glass probably as nonstick as Teflon. > > That bolt sticks up some, I could add layers of G10 glass and epoxy right > over it and still get the nut back on. > > We are talking about the very forward bolt, right? I will be even more > annoyed if I have to fix ALL of them! All the rest seem to torque up just > fine and do not look obviously compromised. > > If I end up having to take the mast step back apart you might just see > the first C&C 35 trawler cruising around! > > > > Joe Della Barba > > Coquina > > > > From: steven.hickel--- via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 2:59 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: steven.hic...@gmail.com > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Blocks under forward most keel bolt > material? > > > Dennis and Neil, thank you so much for the very quick and extremely > helpful replies. > > Neil, if I understand correctly, you took off all of the fiberglass on > top of the blocks, and tabbed a fiberglass board on the top and on the > forward face, creating a boxed corner around them and replacing the lost > height. And you left the wood blocks in place, encased in more resin, rather > than replacing them with fiberglass blocks/ boards? Was assuming I'd need to > replace the blocks to avoid the same issue later. > > Looks like I'll need to grind out and replace what seems to be a very > eaten away backing plate on the bolt. Is there a particular type of (am > assuming) stainless steel that should be used? > > As per the smile. I'm actually addressing that now. And I didn't notice > the fiberglass separation around the forward smaller bolt until after > tightening it to close the smile I added a picture before mostly filling the > gap and will finish fiberglassing it on the first dry day. There seemed to be > lot of resin and perhaps filler/ mat, instead of cloth in the lower area > above the joint, though I don't know what's original. Some of it had cracked. > You can also see a hairline crack in the picture where, after grinding > exposed it, water drops were slowly leaking out from water in the bilge. > > As per the mast step, did you have the mast out or is there a way to > raise it a little and support it from below to get access underneath? Were > you able to get to the wood board underneath and replace it without grinding > out that big block of resin between it and the mast step? > > The boat is on the hard at evers Marina in the Bronx. Have to get it > ready to go back in the water in next week. If you come this way from Glen > Clove and have the time, please reach out. Would be great to get input from > someone familiar with all of this. > > Thank you so much for the help! > > > >
