Stus-List Blocks under forward most keel bolt material?

2022-10-24 Thread steven.hickel--- via CnC-List
I have a C&C 35 mk I. I don't know what what the blocks under the, at least forward most, keel bolt are made of. It has a sort of wood grain, but feel like rock. The fiberglass on the forward-most keel bolt has separated on the starboard side. There's also a top at least mostly resin layer that

Stus-List Re: Blocks under forward most keel bolt material?

2022-10-25 Thread steven.hickel--- via CnC-List
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

Stus-List Re: Blocks under forward most keel bolt material?

2022-10-30 Thread steven.hickel--- via CnC-List
Thank you so much for all the additional helpful messages on this thread. Neil, I don't see a way to private message from this thread. My email is just my first and last name with a period between at Gmail. I'll be at the boat, Fidelis, at evers Marina all the time till she can launch and is re

Stus-List Re: Blocks under forward most keel bolt material?

2022-10-31 Thread steven.hickel--- via CnC-List
Thank you for the additional explanations. Opening up the the fiberglass over the keel joint at all/ any water ingress into joint is definitely the concern, as you mentioned Joe. I found what seems to something like scrap fiberglass/ hdpe board around the marina. But, the pinkish brown color do