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Advice on nail-sick strip-planked boat?
Can anyone advise me on treating my nail-sick strip-planked boat?
She is iroko on steamed oak beams. The planks have been fastened both transversely and into the beams with ferrous nails (I think they are steel). These are now apparently rusting, and pushing out the wooden pellets filling the counter-sinking above the nail-heads. A few have popped completely, many are just forcing the pellets up proud of the outside surface of the hull. Perhaps because this has been a long-standing problem, a previous owner has epoxy-sheathed the whole vessel. Clearly it hasn't fixed the problem. How is this best treated? Should I remove the pellets and treat the nails? What would I treat them with? Can I replace the nails in any way? How would I make good the epoxy coating? Can I just patch it with epoxy after making my repairs, or will this ruin its integrity? Any thoughts would be really welcome. Thanks, Jess |
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