RE: Cal 2-29 Dreaded Beam!

We have already heard from Alfred, who along with Roger Jones, blazed the trail that I followed in replacing my dreaded beam. Alfred's photos and emails were a great help to me when I tackled mine, and so were Roger's. As was mentioned, Roger went to a lot of trouble to make a mechanical drawing of the beam to benefit others. I actually pulled my beam out and dropped it at my welder's shop just as I was leaving the country for a few weeks, and having left the drawing at home he just chose to copy the beam from the original. In my case the original beam was drastically compromised, but the exterior shape was intact. I will look for some links to Roger's job and pass them on. May have to send him an email and disturb him if I can't find them. He's been very busy and therefore inactive on the Cal List. I have attached his mechanical drawing converted to a PDF. He modified the drawing to leave a larger limber hole at the bottom, an improvement in drainage. You've seen my web page, and I apologize that I've been too damned busy sailing to update the page. My beam replacement has been finished for 2 1/2 years, and in just the last few months I have finally started finishing out all of the interior trim. After spending many months without my boat during the beam and bulkhead re-hab, I would go down to work on the boat and end up going out sailing instead. Like Alfred, I replaced my main bulkhead and scarfed a lower section onto the forward bulkhead. For this reason, I chose to take the head out as well as a portion of the settee and ice box. Leaving the main bulkhead and head in place is very doable with some creative scarfing. I've always felt like my ice-box was under-insulated and opened up enough of the counter to remove it and re-build it substantially. I added a lot of R factor and a double-trap thick insulated door. I will start to go through some of my photos and will either update my web page with them or can send some of them upon request. David Wilkie Owen Cal 2-29 "Mariposa" Santa Barbara, CA http://www.mariposasailing.com <http://www.mariposasailing.com/> _____ From: Tim Clauson [mailto:cl… [at] yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 8:00 AM To: Wi… [at] MariposaSailing.com Subject: Cal 2-29 Dreaded Beam! http://www.mariposasailing.com/Replacement.html Hi. I read your beam replacement page and have a few questions. First I guess that I should mention that I am a new owner of an older (1974) Cal 29. I guess that it is a Cal 2-29 from what I have been told, but I bought it as a Cal 29. I did not know anything about the Cal beam when I bought the boat so I did not even look for it or problems that it may have. Needless to say, there is not much left of the beam by looking at the piles of flaked rust where the tabs used to be. Well, I guess that I will replace it. I see not what I am getting into, so I may as well dig in. I see that you pretty much gutted the cabin in your boat to replace the beam and bulkhead. The bulkhead in my boat is in great shape and does not need to be replaced. My question is regarding replacing just the beam, where is the best place to cut the pan to access the beam. The boat is out of the water on the hard and derigged so there is no mast and no load on the cabin top. I see that I will need to remove the port locker and the icebox. But I dont see that I need to remove the head (but maybe I need to look closer) or the sink (head). Any more information that you can give me would be great. Thanks, Tim Oregon _____ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/c ategory.php?category=shopping> them fast with Yahoo! Search.

Good luck Tim. I had studied Wilkie's pages to great extent concerning the beam, knew about it before purchase and used a bore scope to look at it, and luckily haven't had to replace it. I found the tabs were still in reasonable shape and ospho'd and painted the metal. The bulkhead was a different story, although I did that in the water with the mast up--was able to leave the compression post in place. If you need more pictures of the area: http://theworldtrekker.smugmug.com/gallery/2473438#129910019 cheers Jed --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "Wilkie" <wilkie@...> wrote: > > > We have already heard from Alfred, who along with Roger Jones, blazed the > trail that I followed in replacing my dreaded beam. Alfred's photos and > emails were a great help to me when I tackled mine, and so were Roger's. As > was mentioned, Roger went to a lot of trouble to make a mechanical drawing > of the beam to benefit others. I actually pulled my beam out and dropped it > at my welder's shop just as I was leaving the country for a few weeks, and > having left the drawing at home he just chose to copy the beam from the > original. In my case the original beam was drastically compromised, but the > exterior shape was intact. > > I will look for some links to Roger's job and pass them on. May have to > send him an email and disturb him if I can't find them. He's been very busy > and therefore inactive on the Cal List. I have attached his mechanical > drawing converted to a PDF. He modified the drawing to leave a larger > limber hole at the bottom, an improvement in drainage. > > You've seen my web page, and I apologize that I've been too damned busy > sailing to update the page. My beam replacement has been finished for 2 1/2 > years, and in just the last few months I have finally started finishing out > all of the interior trim. After spending many months without my boat during > the beam and bulkhead re-hab, I would go down to work on the boat and end up > going out sailing instead. > > Like Alfred, I replaced my main bulkhead and scarfed a lower section onto > the forward bulkhead. For this reason, I chose to take the head out as well > as a portion of the settee and ice box. Leaving the main bulkhead and head > in place is very doable with some creative scarfing. I've always felt like > my ice-box was under-insulated and opened up enough of the counter to remove > it and re-build it substantially. I added a lot of R factor and a > double-trap thick insulated door. > > I will start to go through some of my photos and will either update my web > page with them or can send some of them upon request. > > David Wilkie Owen > _________________ > Cal 2-29 "Mariposa" > Santa Barbara, CA > http://www.mariposasailing.com <http://www.mariposasailing.com/> > > > > > > _____ > > From: Tim Clauson [mailto:clausont5@...] > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 8:00 AM > To: Wilkie@... > Subject: Cal 2-29 Dreaded Beam! > > > http://www.mariposasailing.com/Replacement.html > > Hi. I read your beam replacement page and have a few questions. > First I guess that I should mention that I am a new owner of an older (1974) > Cal 29. I guess that it is a Cal 2-29 from what I have been told, but I > bought it as a Cal 29. I did not know anything about the Cal beam when I > bought the boat so I did not even look for it or problems that it may have. > Needless to say, there is not much left of the beam by looking at the piles > of flaked rust where the tabs used to be. > Well, I guess that I will replace it. I see not what I am getting into, so I > may as well dig in. > I see that you pretty much gutted the cabin in your boat to replace the beam > and bulkhead. The bulkhead in my boat is in great shape and does not need to > be replaced. > My question is regarding replacing just the beam, where is the best place to > cut the pan to access the beam. The boat is out of the water on the hard and > derigged so there is no mast and no load on the cabin top. > I see that I will need to remove the port locker and the icebox. But I dont > see that I need to remove the head (but maybe I need to look closer) or the > sink (head). > Any more information that you can give me would be great. > Thanks, > > Tim > Oregon > > > > _____ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/c > ategory.php?category=shopping> them fast with Yahoo! Search. >