[ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mayday on the Hudson and other ironies

[Saroj]

Man, Michael, even with my meltzer special edition decoder ring, I could
barely make out 80% of this.  Hopefully FNutters will.

BTW, my boat was leaching water into the bilge for a long time after it got
flooded.  Mine was flooded from the top due to broken drains though.  I've
never had water in through the hull.

Saroj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mayday on the Hudson and other
ironies


> standard thickness should be about 3/4-1 inch in that area, OTHO the 1973
outsource with build all over the place, 1/32 sound like a
> bad patch job with a single lay of glass, does it look like a patch came
apart? maybe after the PO fix a grounding or a drop?
>
> you are going to need the boat on real boat stands for a while, Find the
limit of the thin area, step zero might be to cut it out,
> fill the blast with a sand/epoxy mix, mat/glass over and flair, sand,
epoxy overcoat. sound like you are going to need the cb trunk
> opened. That might be the session, but you need to get the hull dried and
the work done before the temp go below 50 at night.
>
> Can you get a digital camera on it?, IIRC you are in the industry, can you
get it into a yard and do you want to?
>
> BTW, look under the cockpit and in the bow for the foam, some people have
reported it missing, most case PO pulling it thinking it
> was waterlogged.
>
> MJM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <FNuttersNY at aol.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:31 PM
> Subject: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mayday on the Hudson and other ironies
>
>
> > Well folks we had a hell of a day, so far the best sailing day on the
> > river,estuary, what ever.  Sailing along in the middle of the river we
came about and
> > suddenly went no where.  We heard banging in way of the centerboard and
> > though it had come loose but it still felt like it was raising and
lowering ok.
> > But the banging did not stop so we pulled in sails and motered for home
about 5
> > miles away.  We stoped at the foot of  the Newburg/Beacon bridge to
watch the
> > tide action so we could time our eta suddenly water started to enter the
boat.
> >  With both pumps  and both engines running we high tailed it for home.
(Back
> > to the old  2stk 4stk lots of hp not much hp and all that) we made it in
35
> > min. By that time we had ankle deep water in the  cabin but since we
talked
> > about how great she floats (unsinkable and all that) I was not woried.
When we
> > tide up at the dock it realy started to come in and we had to put in a
1/2hp
> > sump pump to get a head of it,  Luckely   it was high tide and we got
her on the
> > trailer.  To everyones astonishment  a hole  the width of the keel an 3
> > inches long helped empty the boat.  It is the very aft section of the
keel starting
> > at about one inch from where it fairs into the hull and the 3 inches
down
> > along the vertical edge of the keel just behind the centerboard trunk.
How it
> > got there  no one knows it's in the damndest spot. One thing bugs me
however the
> > fiberglass in that  area is very thin not mor then a 1/32.  The void
space is
> > not very big maybe 11/2 gallons worth.  I'm tempted to fill it with
concrete.
> >  Now repairs and improvements.  Advice wellcome  comentary aswell.
Yours
> > trully   High and Dry.
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