Cabin Sole

Has any one replaced or hired someone to replace the sole on a Cal33-2.I have quite a bit of delamination (in part due to a so called marina where it was stored on the hard). Questions #1. If you did it yourself haw hard and time consuming was it? Question #2. If you hired some one, how much did it cost? Jim O'C

Jim: How extensive is the delamination? I am replacing a section of the cabin sole in the main salon of a cal 33. Maybe I can offer some help. Jeff From: JimO <ge… [at] msn.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, November 15, 2009 6:09:17 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cabin Sole Has any one replaced or hired someone to replace the sole on a Cal33-2.I have quite a bit of delamination (in part due to a so called marina where it was stored on the hard). Questions #1. If you did it yourself haw hard and time consuming was it? Question #2. If you hired some one, how much did it cost? Jim O'C

Jim, I did not do this on my Cal 33-2 but did boards on my dinghy. It is not hard, Pull out the old stuff. This may be hard as the boards in some places are glued down. Save everything or make templates so you know how to cut the new stuff. Also, the edges are beveled and will need some special wood working tools, but that should not be to hard to do with various saw blades and routers. A great winter project, I would think. Next find a supplier. Cannot be too hard, as this stuff is used all the time. Cost: the labor these days will cost you 1.5 times what the parts cost, as a rule of thumb. If you have the time, do it yourself. It is not dangerous, unlike doing a lot of rigging stuff. I have to let someone else do that now, as the Admiral does not like me going up 55 feet and risking a fall. (I am worth more alive, than dead. That and she keeps me around for certain recreational purposes, otherwise I am superfluous.) (and to think I had 2000 parachute jumps, 4 combat adventures, etc in my past.) Send pictures so the rest of us can see how it went, and we can refer to it when we need to do it ourselves. Blue Skies, Darr LaFon Alcyone II, 1986 Cal 33-2 Annapolis, Maryland _____ From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JimO Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 6:09 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cabin Sole Has any one replaced or hired someone to replace the sole on a Cal33-2.I have quite a bit of delamination (in part due to a so called marina where it was stored on the hard). Questions #1. If you did it yourself haw hard and time consuming was it? Question #2. If you hired some one, how much did it cost? Jim O'C

I have removed my cabin sole entirely from the boat for re-finishing and it is not that hard of a job. If you need to replace it completely, you should be able to remove each piece and use them as templates for cutting new wood. First, remove the table from the center of the cabin by unscrewing the feet and the pole from the cabin top. Move the table off the boat by rotating toward the galley sink and then canting the support pole aft and walking up into the cockpit. This is a two person job. Then, remove the engine cover from the cabin and remove the brackets for the engine cover hinges that are screwed through the floor. The center sections simply unscrew from the support beams of the hull pan. All of the outer pieces are held in place by a marine caulk. I used a 24" long wrecking bar that I sharpened and slowly worked the flat edge of the bar under the edge of each board, a little at a time up and down the edge until the outer edge caulk was cut and released. I then raised the floor boards by hand and cut the caulk with a utility knife as it was exposed. All pieces came out without damage. The hardest to remove was the port board under the galley furniture. After working the outer edges, I applied rotational torque to the board and slowly weakened the bond of the sealant. Eventually the floor board worked free without removing the cabinet that houses the sink. This took the longest of all. Good luck Donald Dutton, 1986 Cal 33-2, "Quantum Evolution" "Twenty Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things 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 From: JimO <ge… [at] msn.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, November 15, 2009 3:09:17 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cabin Sole Has any one replaced or hired someone to replace the sole on a Cal33-2.I have quite a bit of delamination (in part due to a so called marina where it was stored on the hard). Questions #1. If you did it yourself haw hard and time consuming was it? Question #2. If you hired some one, how much did it cost? Jim O'C