Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Cal 39 Keel hull joint crack

Jay - Can you fill me in a little more on what happened to your boat? FWIW we just had it re-surveyed for insurance last spring (before the hard grounding last summer). I may call him back to re-tap everything to see if there are any more stressed areas. Thanks - Paul In a message dated 5/20/2014 12:52:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com writes: I would be taking great care with them cracks if I was you and would be tapping that whole area looking for more delamination. I say this because I am pretty sure That that was what failed and caused my boat to sink ( Chase Me ). We thought at first it was water coming into the hull thru engine well that caused the sinking. However with further thought and discussion we consider that to be almost impossible we would have had to had the rail totally immersed before water could have leaked in that way. I am pretty sure we had a catastrophic failure in the area where the hull meets keel or the bow stem split open Jay

Hmmmmm . . . mine didn't double but it did lengthen several inches on each side. How far past the "end" of the crack would you recommend grinding and re-glassing? Thanks - Paul In a message dated 5/20/2014 12:53:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com writes: BTW I am a builder laminator by trade . bare in mind that the actual crack is going to be over twice the length of what you can see before grinding Jay