Boat Plans Canada
This summer I met Bernie Evan Wong when racing RS Elite sloops at the Nonsuch Bay Resort.
I was bow crew sailing for a local English expat named Tony Sayer.
During the luch break I met Bernie and his daughter Sarah. We talked fishing and cooking fish. It got around to boats and stuff. Someone said I built boats and did repairs.
Bernies question was what I thought it would take to fix a hole in his Mumm 37 sloop.
So far the locals had been very diverse in quotes and advice in repairing this hole that had been caused when the crane that was lifting it had its wire break and thus dropped it onto a concrete dock piling.
The quotes ran from many thousands up to $10,000.00 US to fix with no real time frames.
Would I mine looking at it and giving some advice.
Sure
I looked it over for a few minutes and then explained how I would do it and how long it should take.
My estimate was for less than 40 hours labour up to the finish paint coat.
Bernie asked if I would do it. Sure... Why not. But after I was done with the Wild Bird project. And only that as I wanted to be off sailing and Bernie had a waterfront lot full of boats needing work. I had not crewed for him at this time.
First I taped over the plywood skin with aluminum tape. The epoxy resin would not stick to this. I then glassed in on top of the taped outer skin the first inner layer of glass cloth. When wet I could fit it to the inside of the old cores edges to get a good seal.
I then let it cure. After wiping off the blush and then grinding I could then appy the new core.
Now I could lay in the new core both Balsa and Kledgecell on top of the outside skin.This I glued down in epoxy glue.
I then let cure.
When this cured I faired the hull with a 7" foam pad using a Mikita variable speed grinder.
After this I sanded with a random orbital sander and then rolled on 3 coats of Awlgrip 545 primer.
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