Re: [Cal_Boats] There was this numb skull....
why not go overboard and put a plastic bag over the hole and seal with some polyeurathene goo and the dry hole from inside repair hole with glass and epoxy dry it faster with heat gun this will hold till haul out screw probably hole too but glass may give you more confidence btw i was working on a 43 hatteras lrc and the very knowledgeable owner did the same thing i did the screw repair and he went to alabama from south carolina without episode so i would be afraid to try both repairs
gene
--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Whirled Peas <wh… [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Whirled Peas <wh… [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] There was this numb skull....
To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 7:59 PM
Ummmm... I'm unfamiliar with 5400. If it were my boat I'd want to pull it and reglass the inside and outside of the hole properly so as to have consistent structural soundness.
From: Dan <saltybob2@yahoo. com>
To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 4:33:25 PM
Subject: [Cal_Boats] There was this numb skull....
In a moment of fatigue and carelessness, I drilled a 3/32' hole into my Mk lll 34' hull this weekend. I was finishing up a stellar job of an all new bilge pump system: new pump, float switch, ABYC color coded wires and drain hose. As a finishing touch I intended to tidy up and fasten the flexible conduit along the top edge of the bilge, up along the underside of the sole with a stainless steel screw and conduit bracket.
I was working in that area just under the sole and couldn't get the screw started. I slipped a bit in my cordless and in less time than it takes to say "Aw s@*t!", I had a steady stream of sea water squirting into the bilge. I expected the hull to be just as thick there as the rest of the hull. It si not. It had to be less than ¼" thick. I grabbed the s/s screw and a tube of 5400 and stopped the flow.
And now the $54,000 question: Is this sufficient to get me through to my planned 2010 haul out or am I rotting the hull from somewhere else invisible to the naked eye?
Cheers,
Dan