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Flying Pig Damage Assessment and update
I have to laugh that Geoff beat me to the internet with the pictures.
I've crossposted this to rbb as well, as there may be those there who have some construction suggestions. Today I'll take copious pictures of the real damage - inside, where we'll have to take the boat apart. I also want to add a non-damage discussion point WRT all the marvelous offers of help which have been arriving, including overwhelming the phone lines at KBW (we arrived after hours on Friday, so have no knowledge of what happened other than a yardie commented about the office phone ringing off the hook; they're out until Tuesday, at which point I'll learn more). We have put our interior back together, and if you didn't know where to look, you'd not know anything had occurred. So, until the insurance company takes it from us, we have a place to live - one less hurdle to address. We're also creeping up on possibilities of transportation. We have two offers, both from people far away, of loans of a vehicle, both of which require TLC from a mechanic to be functional, so we don't yet have a resolution on that. Practically speaking, given the realities, if Flying Pig is to be saved, it will be because we take over the refit work. That will involve all the sorts of things we did in our initial work, including hauling lots of stuff. We did that in the van we gave away the day we left, so have nothing to use for that purpose. So, a truck, van or SUV, the more beat-up (representing little risk of compromise) but mechanically reliable, the better. One of those offered is 1000 miles away, so making this happen is challenging at very best; a local benefactor would be much more effective. Physically, we're still exhausted, because, despite having "nothing to do" we're not getting nearly enough sleep in regular terms, let alone trying to catch up with the shortfall. Otherwise, we're sound of body ... .... Of mind, we're oscillating between optimism and despair. The despair part will be more clear below; the optimism is my usual mode, including the troubleshooting (focus on the solution, not the problem, but identify the problem before charging off in all directions) of our situation. I'm happiest when solving problems, so I should have plenty to keep me entertained for a while. On to the damage report: The exterior of the boat I could easily (if time-consumingly) do myself, having just done much more than the equivalent in blister repair. For that matter, so could Lydia, as she's done a great deal of the repair which photos will show survived the abuse. I'll save a detailed discussion until I have the pix up. The other fiberglass work is very straightforward, too. However... Virtually all the starboard bulkheads from the galley bulkhead aft are detabbed now. Only a little of what I can see came loose from the hull, but the bulkheads moved substantially (but remained intact; we lost only one tile on the head/ER bulkhead over the tub, e.g.). It's a simple process to cut away the old, grind the hull to make a bonding point, and do it over again. What's not so easy is the removal of the settee to get to the sole, removing that to get to the forward, Vee shaped with "frog legs" extensions, water tank which butts up against the bulkhead between the galley sink and settees. I presume the water tank has also delaminated from the hull; it goes across the entire salon, requiring removal of the other settee, and all the sole, as well. It's intact, more testimony to how stout this boat is. Of course, it's far bigger than any of the exits, so will have to be propped up somewhere while we work. And, in any event, it would have to be removed in order to access the bulkhead at the hull behind where it was placed. Under/aft of the salon water tank, is the mast well. The crotch of the "frog legs" is the majority of the mast well. Support for the mast step has been compromised. Perhaps it's sound - and could be addressed with the mast in place. However, when you pull the tank, you pull most of the mast well (only the back of it, the bulkhead, remains). Oops. Gotta redo the entire step assembly, probably, and certainly at a minimum, pull the mast. Rigger Fee Ouchies, followed by the electrical realities of the fact that it appears this mast hasn't been removed since it left the factory, as a great number of the wires up the mast are solid and will have to be cut and then remade on restoration of the mast But wait - there's more. On the galley side, much the same exists. It took us nearly a year of work to build that galley; much of it will have to be redone after we saw it out. The reefer is integral to the engine room bulkhead, and aside from the cooling part, won't be salvageable. It will have to be custom built, all over again, a *very* fiddly piece of work. To get to the engine room tabbing, and the other side of the settee mentioned above, the entire galley and starboard water tank will have to come out. The only good news in that is the new sole will be done right, instead of just the extra layer of (very beautiful) teak and holly laid over a rot stabilization from the prior icebox drain leaking, done in some prior owner's repairs/maintenance. That tank, too, is intact. We'll have to saw out the reefer which was custom built from the ground up (see postings from a couple of years ago) to get to the ER tabbing. It gets better. The starboard motor mount stringers were heaving in the pounding, too, as was the battery box, in the location commonly where the genset would be. That area was the only one where I saw hull-bulkhead detabbing, as one of the stringers we'd rebuilt, aft, had pulled off the hull. However, the ER sole will have to come out in order to get to the tabbing on the galley bulkhead, and it will take further examination, but I see the distinct possibility for having to pull the engine (not out, just up, through the hole provided in the sole of the cockpit) in order to address the likely detabbing of the mounts stringers. Aft, the tub will have to come out - an interesting project, I'm sure, and perhaps destroying the expensive tiling job that was done just before we left, as well as the custom molding into which the plexiglass custom dividers are set (though, perhaps, given that it's only a couple of weeks old, the caulk might release the plastic - but the plastic, too, might be destroyed in the attempt), and at least part of the sole (installed under the tub in the original building process) will have to be cut out, and later, custom shimming done to support it and the tub structure as it's replaced. So, it's all very straightforward - but intensely expensive to have done, and nearly inconceivable that the insurance company won't total it. I have no doubt that at quality contract rates, even if I do the contracting myself (thus saving some money over the yard being general contractor), our remaining 100K (after paying for the salvage and midnight emergency haul first) won't begin to cover it. Yet, it can't not be done, if the boat is to sail again, as it's integral to the strength of the hull. In fact, in talking with my surveyor, now a friend (whose brother's M462 I found an owner for after the insurance company totaled it following a galley fire), who was the QC and Service Manager at Morgan during the entire production run of our boat, he suggests that due to the flexing the hull's had, more rather than less bulkhead strength is advised. Once it's apart, that will be pretty easy to accomplish, so I'm not concerned, but it's very good information to have. He also told me exactly what materials were used in the tabbing, so, I'm sure it can be done properly. I've done nearly all of what's needed for access other than pulling out the tanks, already, in the course of our refit. I have no illusions of simplicity or ease. I have no doubt that with as many people as could fit into all the spaces, working simultaneously (which, of course, can't happen in realistic terms), it would take many hundreds of manhours to accomplish, but still would take not less than a month, more likely two, of multiple crews treating each area (saloon, galley, engine room, aft head) as a separate project. At typical yard rates, that would instantly kill our insurance policy. Of course, in addition to all the fiberglass, paint, epoxy, bottom paint and the like outside, there's the replacement of the rudder, a significant cost in itself. Even in that, I have a clear idea of what's needed, as I was able to visit a sistership, the single 463 built, in which the rudder and support at the bottom was removed during his refit. All very straightforward, all very expensive... That doesn't address the mayhem topsides; nearly all of our running rigging is toast, flogged to a nice fuzz, or, stripping the outer coating leaving the core either exposed or compromised further, or knotted in a basketball-sized agglomeration, the KISS generator was ripped from its pole, leaving nothing but a blackened stump and a wire, the VHF antenna broke its mount, requiring unfishing and refishing of the antenna line to remount, bimini stitching failed in a couple of places, the propane system went south (maybe a connection? solenoid? kinked line?), the genoa is shredded in its furling (now I understand how it works in hurricanes with furled gennies), the main has a tear in the leech, the staysail cover is tattered, the toe rail is shattered where the salvor's line gave way and ripped both chocks out, the hailer is gone, blown away or shaken loose during the pounding, and probably other things I'll discover later when I go out in the cold light of the day. At the moment I wrote this before proofing, dealing with visitors, going outside to take pictures and discussing reality with Lydia, I was trying to regain consciousness with a cup of microwaved coffee (no stove, remember), before I headed into damage assessment and photos and uploads later today. The gallery with the current events is http://justpickone.org/skip/gallery/ in the first subgallery, Flying_Pig_Is_Aloft_-_The_Adventure_Begins, at this moment empty, but if you see a picture rather than a file folder, pictures are inside. Not related directly, but I have to say, again, how overwhelmed and touched we are by the support groups which have and are springing up. The couple who took us to dinner a couple of nights ago in Key West just left after having driven an hour to check up on us. Last night a couple of sailors and their son, a co-worker of my son's who'd flown down to help them deliver their boat from Ft. Lauderdale to Marathon, brought us supper and regaled us with stories both about sailing, software authorship and flying. A local delivery captain just phoned to say he'd get up a list of competent, honest local contractors, so that I might better do the management of our restoration directly than have the management overhead of the - reiterated as the best in the area - yard; it just arrived as I was typing this. An Island Packet Sailnet list member made us a webpage (http://ipphotos.com/ FlyingPig.asp ) as part of his Island Packet Photos site. It goes on and on. You meet the most caring people in the cruising world... L8R Skip and Lydia, blessed, despite it all Morgan 461 #2 Disaster link: http://ipphotos.com/FlyingPig.asp SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones 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 |
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Flying Pig Damage Assessment and update
This seems to be the best thread in which to insert this...
George Huffman, of "The Dinghy Dock" newsletter, made a post in Renegades, offering his help as soon as his own vehicular challenges are resolved... Hi, George, and onlookers, It keeps getting better... The transportation issue isn't yet resolved - but there's a distinct possibility in the area. I just got a mail from my surveyor, ex-QC and Service Manager for Morgan during the entire time of building our boats. The short story is that if the detabbing is at the bulkhead and the bulkhead hasn't been compromised with oil products (fuel, oil, etc.), just wedging it open, flowing in epoxy and then screwing it down will rebond and, as my wife, and England-raised lady, sez, "Bob's your uncle!" I'm going to follow up to see if one *must* screw it back down (vs, e.g., wedging i.e. are the screws necessary for structural integrity, or just used to pull it tight?) to make it happen. If wedging will suffice, likely we won't have to pull the tanks, minimizing an already labor intensive project into something far more manageable. I'm already into project management mode, but Lydia's still in full depression, as the enormity of the elephant she has to eat is still too close to analyze. She doesn't do patience, or methodical long- term results. "Lord, give me patience - and I want it *right now!!!* - funny, but unfortunately true for her generally, let alone under these circumstances. Yet, all this will pass, and we'll have the most amazing stories to tell around the potlucks out in the Caribbean, or to the BoyScouts we might do charters for on their Extreme Adventure series "Sail the Keys" once this is all settled. Not quite Robinson Cruso, or the other which escapes me about the swiss family, but still entertaining, if you don't have to deal with the pain of the real possibility of losing your home and every one of your possessions. Yet, I'm struck by how fortunate we are in comparison, for example, of some of the Rita/Katrina/Wilma/Ivan survivors. We're truly blessed, including by such as you all. Love to all of you kind souls, most of whom we don't even know exist, having never even corresponded, let alone met... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 Disaster link: http://ipphotos.com/FlyingPig.asp SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones 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 |
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Skip,
Regarding the "pulling it apart and flowing-in epoxy" -- yes, that will work with certain caveats: How clean is the material on either face which will be epoxied together? Oil-free is good, of course, but if the two surfaces pulled cleanly away from each other, leaving little glass on the wood or wood on the glass, they weren't bonded strongly-enough to begin with. Trying to rebond them with epoxy won't be very strong, and eventually that joint will fail again. New epoxy won't form a primary bond with old polyester resin. If, in pulling apart, plenty of glass was left in the wood or visa-versa, then the glue joint was as strong as it could have been. But in either case, rebonding without mechanical fasteners will be weaker than the original joint which failed. You might want to consider, rather than screws through the glass into the bulkheads, using through-bolted hardwood battens at least half an inch thick to help spread the load and reinforce that joint. If at all possible, I would want to laminate those battens into place, making a "wood-glass-wood-glass-wood" sandwich bolted and epoxied together. "Skip Gundlach" wrote in message ups.com... This seems to be the best thread in which to insert this... George Huffman, of "The Dinghy Dock" newsletter, made a post in Renegades, offering his help as soon as his own vehicular challenges are resolved... Hi, George, and onlookers, It keeps getting better... The transportation issue isn't yet resolved - but there's a distinct possibility in the area. I just got a mail from my surveyor, ex-QC and Service Manager for Morgan during the entire time of building our boats. The short story is that if the detabbing is at the bulkhead and the bulkhead hasn't been compromised with oil products (fuel, oil, etc.), just wedging it open, flowing in epoxy and then screwing it down will rebond and, as my wife, and England-raised lady, sez, "Bob's your uncle!" I'm going to follow up to see if one *must* screw it back down (vs, e.g., wedging i.e. are the screws necessary for structural integrity, or just used to pull it tight?) to make it happen. If wedging will suffice, likely we won't have to pull the tanks, minimizing an already labor intensive project into something far more manageable. I'm already into project management mode, but Lydia's still in full depression, as the enormity of the elephant she has to eat is still too close to analyze. She doesn't do patience, or methodical long- term results. "Lord, give me patience - and I want it *right now!!!* - funny, but unfortunately true for her generally, let alone under these circumstances. Yet, all this will pass, and we'll have the most amazing stories to tell around the potlucks out in the Caribbean, or to the BoyScouts we might do charters for on their Extreme Adventure series "Sail the Keys" once this is all settled. Not quite Robinson Cruso, or the other which escapes me about the swiss family, but still entertaining, if you don't have to deal with the pain of the real possibility of losing your home and every one of your possessions. Yet, I'm struck by how fortunate we are in comparison, for example, of some of the Rita/Katrina/Wilma/Ivan survivors. We're truly blessed, including by such as you all. Love to all of you kind souls, most of whom we don't even know exist, having never even corresponded, let alone met... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 Disaster link: http://ipphotos.com/FlyingPig.asp SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones 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 |
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If it were my boat and the joint were structurally important, i'd gain
access to the loose tabbing, cut away the separated leaf of tabbing, grind both sides of the joint and lay up new tabbng with epoxy. "KLC Lewis" wrote in message et... Skip, Regarding the "pulling it apart and flowing-in epoxy" -- yes, that will work with certain caveats: How clean is the material on either face which will be epoxied together? Oil-free is good, of course, but if the two surfaces pulled cleanly away from each other, leaving little glass on the wood or wood on the glass, they weren't bonded strongly-enough to begin with. Trying to rebond them with epoxy won't be very strong, and eventually that joint will fail again. New epoxy won't form a primary bond with old polyester resin. If, in pulling apart, plenty of glass was left in the wood or visa-versa, then the glue joint was as strong as it could have been. But in either case, rebonding without mechanical fasteners will be weaker than the original joint which failed. You might want to consider, rather than screws through the glass into the bulkheads, using through-bolted hardwood battens at least half an inch thick to help spread the load and reinforce that joint. If at all possible, I would want to laminate those battens into place, making a "wood-glass-wood-glass-wood" sandwich bolted and epoxied together. "Skip Gundlach" wrote in message ups.com... This seems to be the best thread in which to insert this... George Huffman, of "The Dinghy Dock" newsletter, made a post in Renegades, offering his help as soon as his own vehicular challenges are resolved... Hi, George, and onlookers, It keeps getting better... The transportation issue isn't yet resolved - but there's a distinct possibility in the area. I just got a mail from my surveyor, ex-QC and Service Manager for Morgan during the entire time of building our boats. The short story is that if the detabbing is at the bulkhead and the bulkhead hasn't been compromised with oil products (fuel, oil, etc.), just wedging it open, flowing in epoxy and then screwing it down will rebond and, as my wife, and England-raised lady, sez, "Bob's your uncle!" I'm going to follow up to see if one *must* screw it back down (vs, e.g., wedging i.e. are the screws necessary for structural integrity, or just used to pull it tight?) to make it happen. If wedging will suffice, likely we won't have to pull the tanks, minimizing an already labor intensive project into something far more manageable. I'm already into project management mode, but Lydia's still in full depression, as the enormity of the elephant she has to eat is still too close to analyze. She doesn't do patience, or methodical long- term results. "Lord, give me patience - and I want it *right now!!!* - funny, but unfortunately true for her generally, let alone under these circumstances. Yet, all this will pass, and we'll have the most amazing stories to tell around the potlucks out in the Caribbean, or to the BoyScouts we might do charters for on their Extreme Adventure series "Sail the Keys" once this is all settled. Not quite Robinson Cruso, or the other which escapes me about the swiss family, but still entertaining, if you don't have to deal with the pain of the real possibility of losing your home and every one of your possessions. Yet, I'm struck by how fortunate we are in comparison, for example, of some of the Rita/Katrina/Wilma/Ivan survivors. We're truly blessed, including by such as you all. Love to all of you kind souls, most of whom we don't even know exist, having never even corresponded, let alone met... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 Disaster link: http://ipphotos.com/FlyingPig.asp SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones 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 |
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Hi Skip:
If I were looking at my crunched boat I think I would walk away with a pocket full of insurance money and go find a nice 28' Cascade or something and go sailing the next day. After the 1000s of hours invested in Pig I'd think you would be ready for a vacation. Are you ready to spend the next 2 years in the yard............ again? Personally as hard as you have worked on her Id think some fun is in order. On a slightly related topic.... I read Lydia's comment she logged the night before the crash. I get the impression she does not like sailing: "...There are sailors, and then there are sailors. Some of us sail because we're addicted to sailing - that catagory of people usually race sailboats. And then there are the others, who sail to get from A to B in order to enjoy what's at B. That's us. You're thrilled when you leave port for your new desination, and you're thrilled when you arrive. You endure the in between part...." Lydia Endure the in-between part? Isn't that called sailing? Bob |
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In article . com,
"Skip Gundlach" wrote: I'm going to follow up to see if one *must* screw it back down (vs, e.g., wedging i.e. are the screws necessary for structural integrity, or just used to pull it tight?) to make it happen. If wedging will suffice, likely we won't have to pull the tanks, minimizing an already labor intensive project into something far more manageable. I suspect it's like doing glue & nail in woodworking: The nails are really there only to get a good bond; you could pull them after it's set up. But you want a really good bond.... Agreement with KLC's assessment on the "cleanness" of the break. Rough is better, polyester probably your best bet, fortified with something strong that you can shoot in with, say, a caulk gun. It does keep sounding better and better. Just a thought that you might toss around: to get pressure on the joints, you might intentionally put jackstands at those areas, intentionally a bit too "tight"; the hull will probably flex outward afterwards, pulling the bulkheads back in place. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's NEW Pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/ Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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"Bob" wrote in message ps.com... Hi Skip: If I were looking at my crunched boat I think I would walk away with a pocket full of insurance money and go find a nice 28' Cascade or something and go sailing the next day. After the 1000s of hours invested in Pig I'd think you would be ready for a vacation. Are you ready to spend the next 2 years in the yard............ again? Personally as hard as you have worked on her Id think some fun is in order. On a slightly related topic.... I read Lydia's comment she logged the night before the crash. I get the impression she does not like sailing: "...There are sailors, and then there are sailors. Some of us sail because we're addicted to sailing - that catagory of people usually race sailboats. And then there are the others, who sail to get from A to B in order to enjoy what's at B. That's us. You're thrilled when you leave port for your new desination, and you're thrilled when you arrive. You endure the in between part...." Lydia Endure the in-between part? Isn't that called sailing? Bob Might be more enjoyable to fly to a destination (eg. BVI) and rent a sailboat for a couple of weeks. |
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On Feb 13, 3:13 am, Jere Lull wrote:
Just a thought that you might toss around: to get pressure on the joints, you might intentionally put jackstands at those areas, intentionally a bit too "tight"; the hull will probably flex outward afterwards, pulling the bulkheads back in place. Excellent thought. So far what iI can see (pictures, soon, I promise!) suggests it's already tight, as there's not a gap top/bottom of the line where it used to be attached. As to KLC's comment about reinforcement, if I could get to them all the way, the discussion of shims/wedges wouldn't be necessary. And, if I could get to them all the way, I'm enough of a belt and suspenders man that I'd likely grind it off and put on new, building up in exactly the same form as original (Pete provided me with the type of cloth used). I can't see how adding wood over an existing tab, and then going over it with FG/resin would improve matters; you're relying on the existing part, and not connecting the new to the bulkhead (I may not have a picture of what was intended, I realize). Thanks for all the commentary and support, in whatever fashion. Today it looks like we'll have a beater Suburban for use in transport and hauling; I'll know for sure by the end of the day. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 Disaster link: http://ipphotos.com/FlyingPig.asp SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog The Society for the Preservation of Tithesis commends your ebriated and scrutible use of delible and defatigable, which are gainly, sipid and couth. We are gruntled and consolate that you have the ertia and eptitude to choose such putably pensible tithesis, which we parage. Stamp out Sesquipedalianism -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's NEW Pages:http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/ Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics)http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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On 13 Feb 2007 07:24:57 -0800, "Skip Gundlach"
wrote: Excellent thought. So far what iI can see (pictures, soon, I promise!) Hi Skip, You'd better hurray or we will send Geoff out to beat you to the scoop - -Lee |
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"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message ups.com... As to KLC's comment about reinforcement, if I could get to them all the way, the discussion of shims/wedges wouldn't be necessary. And, if I could get to them all the way, I'm enough of a belt and suspenders man that I'd likely grind it off and put on new, building up in exactly the same form as original (Pete provided me with the type of cloth used). I can't see how adding wood over an existing tab, and then going over it with FG/resin would improve matters; you're relying on the existing part, and not connecting the new to the bulkhead (I may not have a picture of what was intended, I realize). Thanks for all the commentary and support, in whatever fashion. Today it looks like we'll have a beater Suburban for use in transport and hauling; I'll know for sure by the end of the day. L8R Skip Skip, My outline may have left out steps that I have clearly in mind, but didn't translate into dots on the screen. The way I see it, yes -- you could grind off all the old tabbing and install it new, but then you would have TWO secondary/mechanical bonds, rather than the one secondary (tabbing to bulkhead) and one primary (tabbing to hull, laid-up when the resin was still fresh and molecularly active. My method does rely upon glue (epoxy) between the bulkhead and old tabbing, clamped together with the bolts and battens, all laminated together into one thick tabbing. Unfortunately, if you don't have the access, you don't have the access. So now the question becomes, can you ever make it strong enough without that access? |
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