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Boat Forum / Building / January 2006New Question ... Put on Your Boatyard Hats
I was looking at an old boat that had a plywood cabin. The owner/builder had covered the plywood with fiberglass cloth. Long time ago. He said that a surveyor who looked at the boat for insurance needs said that their was too much water density in the plywood. The surveyor used some type of device to test this. The surveyor recommended that the cabin roof be replaced. Question:: While I don't doubt that water got down under the fiberglass cloth, I thought that if the fiberglass cloth was torn off and the plywood was exposed then wouldn't it just dry up and then he [ friend ] could apply epoxy and then new cloth but make sure that the epoxy has saturated the ply surface and that way the ply could not get wet. So, what about this problem. > I was looking at an old boat that had a plywood cabin. The owner/builder > had covered the plywood with fiberglass cloth. Long time ago. He said that [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I bought an old wooden boat, the previous owner had fitted a deck house and sheathed in in fibreglass. so far so good. unfortunately he had cut corners with the windows. they did not seal properly and the water got behind the glass mat. in spite of a survey which pointed out some of the more obvious faults, this was not specifically pointed out. it grew some really magnificent mushrooms before I abandoned any hope of repairing it and ripped the whole deckhouse off and built a new one. at the time it looked good but like a few others before me I had parted with my money before I realised the true extent of the problem regards Peter Thomas, you're trolling us. Please either buy some books and read them or go pester rec.golf. > I was looking at an old boat that had a plywood cabin. The owner/builder > had covered the plywood with fiberglass cloth. Long time ago. He said that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > So, what about this problem. Dear Jim,,,,, go ............ yourself. If you don't want to answer a question, that is your business. If you pick a fight with me,,, I will make you my business. ============ > Thomas, you're trolling us. > Please either buy some books and read them or go pester rec.golf. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >> So, what about this problem. Thomas: You ask a question, people offer answers. This place is a great resource for answers from people who have "Been there and done that." Your questions do not follow a logical path. You are all over the place. It is though you don't own a boat, never owned a boat, and have no actual boat you are asking questions about. There is nothing actually wrong with this, it's called learning. But you are starting to come across as a troll. Look it up. Trolls get kill filtered by those who are your best scorch of real information. You don't want that, if you actually are asking a real question. Thomas Went worth wrote: > Dear Jim,,,,, go ............ yourself. > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>> >>>So, what about this problem. Trolls get kill filtered by those who are your best sourse of real > information. Damn spell check! > Thomas: > You ask a question, people offer answers. This place is a great [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] >>>> >>>> So, what about this problem. > Trolls get kill filtered by those who are your best sourse of real > > information. > > Damn spell check! Heh. Didn't improve on the second try :{)) L8R Skip, in rehab and PT and moving closer to stepping aboard  SignatureMorgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain Jim,,, I find Wentworth's numerous questions refreshing. Why don't you just answer him. He may have a lot on his mind, or he seems to be catching up but at least his questions are relevant to the building/repairing of boats. > Thomas, you're trolling us. > Please either buy some books and read them or go pester rec.golf. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >> So, what about this problem. >Jim,,, I find Wentworth's numerous questions refreshing. Why don't you just >answer him. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >>> >>> So, what about this problem. Tom, Once the wood is damaged it is damaged, drying it out and appling epoxy even if its penetrating epoxy will not cure the rotten wood problem. I had the same situation on the Buddy Harris custom carolina sportfisherman I am restoring, I tried the penetrating epoxy solution, it repaired the soft wood on the surface but the inner veneers were still soft. When water migrates into plywood and resides there for a while I feel it is best to bite the bullet and replace it and reglass. IMHO the key to the glass job lasting is a very good prime coat (high build epoxy) , then several coats of a good linear polyurthane finish coat.If you are glassing with epoxy the epoxy HAS to be protected from UV . |
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