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Jeff Roy (Jeffr)

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Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 02:01 pm:   

Final Report:

Well my boat is going in the water tomorrow. Yesterday I had to go crazy getting everything ready at the last minute.

The yard was going to put the mast up this morning, so for good or bad I am finished with this repair.

Sure there were many other ways to go about it, but I think this all turned out pretty well and is much stronger and better designed than the original step.

g10
Here is the mast step just before I put the plate down. Unfortunately I did not leave enough width for the plate that takes the tenision load from the tie rod. I had to do some last minute butchery with a chisel to make it fit. I coated everything with epoxy again, so it is sealed up, but it is a shame I had to hack up such a neat job at the last minute. I stacked up 2 1/4" pieces of G10 to span the space I left to access the foremost keel bolt. In the future all someone will have to do is unscrew the G10 and the bolt is clear. All the other bolts are already clear. If anyone doubts the strenght of G10 or it's suitabity for jobs like this I suggest you take a good look at the specs of this stuff. Boatyards are using it for repairs all the time and some of the builders are using it now too. It is good stuff.

plate

Here is the step with the plate installed. The tie rod was permantly corroded in place in the aluminum plate. This made the removal of the plate very difficult. Since my new step does not extend as far aft as the original one, it is much easier to get the plate on and off, even with the tie rod attacked. No need for a BF hammer any more :)

done

Here it all is as I left it for the yard to step the mast.

The only thing I could not do, that will have to wait until next season, was to repaint the bilge. I even bought the paint but there just wasn't enough time in my schedule to get to it.

I have been going at this full bore for a while now. I had so much stuff to do this week that I was out there at 9:30 pm painting my bottom. The paint job came out respectably considering I was painting black on black in the dark!

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