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     Lance Staughton New member Username: Twospeed Post Number: 12 Registered: 01-2001 Rating: N/A |
My repair was pretty much done before this topic was covered in great detail on this site. Everything is quite accurate.Starboard side weaker. Sloppy glass work around the plate. Which to answer your question about getting worse -YES ! I've seen a boat in Portland(#52)with cracks projecting up several inches!yes inches. Its a sad sight. Mine got worse and I'm sure it was the corrosion of the plate caused by water getting into the little cracks in the fiberglass. the plate then expanded to 3 times the thickness - it acts like a laminated(?) plate as there were many layers - not just 2. I glassed around the bottom after peeling back the liner leaving the hole where it was. Then I did the top with mucho layers of glass and expanded the rectangular area about 3 times the size of the original. This allowed me to rout out wet wood and make a good looking repair that covered up the smaller cracks eminating out. It was easier to make the gelcoat look better too because you didn't have to match the textures on the deck just the smooth rectangle area. Sure the boat doesn't look "original" because of the bigger square but you'd never know unless side by side another 9.1. Since I didn't have a good area to mold-cracks and all- I decided to not worry about making the collar area perfect and used Spartite to hold the mast in place. So far so good. Glad to answer any more questions you have. |
