RE: [Cal_Boats] dreaded beam
I saw what I think was a Cal 25 (before I was a Cal owner) in St. Mikes that the Guy had built what looked like a pilothouse on.
Paul
"Husar, Charlie [USA]" <hu… [at] bah.com> wrote:
>There used to be a concrete boat works in Savage, MD. I am told that the rebar would eventually oxidize inside the concrete and destroy the integrity of the hull. Don't know any facts on that. Otherwise, rebar is steel and so is the beam. Should work as long as bolting areas have rebar support.
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>Reggie, I think everybody bit their tongue and went Yuk. Purists that we are.
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>I once saw a CAL 25 that the owner reworked for the ICW (or something). He chopped off the bottom foot of the keel (the lead area), glassed the bottom of what was left, and filled the bilge with concrete. Then he built a square box deck doghouse out of plywood over the slide hatch area which he had cut out bigger. It was heart breaking. The family does not like to talk about it much.
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>Cheers
>Charlie
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>That was a question I posed to the group a couple of years ago. I wondered why it would not work, particularly when concrete continues to cure when in water. My comment was dismissed at the time as being "too heavy." Strengthen that block with rebar and what is not to like?
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>On 4/23/10, David Wilkie Owen <dw… [at] cox.net<mailto:dw… [at] cox.net>> wrote:
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>Yeah. I just couldn't make myself even contemplate that one.....
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>Wilkie
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>On Apr 23, 2010, at 5:45 PM, r good wrote:
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>I am astounded, after all the discussions I've witnessed onthis list over the past 10 years or so about the "dreaded beam" that NOT ONE CAL LISTER commented on the CAL 36 which had the beam replaced with concrete!
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