[Rhodes22-list] hull leak question for Tom

[Tootle]

Tom:

About the picture that you posted.  Is that water draining or ice?  Was
there water in the bilge?  Did you look under the floor boards in the cabin?  

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
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Tom Hogarty wrote:
> 
> The boat is at Casa Rio Marina in Mayo, Maryland,  just down the road from
> my marina where I launched.  I was referred there by an instructor from a
> local sailing school.  They sounded familiar with Rhodes, and will do the
> repair.  Should I trust them to know this?  I thought about taking it to
> Stan, but the trip would cost almost as much as the work.
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> Miracleboat wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   I just finished major repairs to my hull.  I have an '81Rhodes.  My  
>> only advice would to be very aggressive in seeing the cement under
>> the head area.  My delamination was under there and  I was already on  
>> stands when I took up my flooring job to take a closer look at the
>> cement which is used for ballast in the forward belly of the boat,  
>> just aft of the foam.
>> 
>> My leak came all the way back through the cement and into the bilge  
>> when I tried to launch last year. I was already in the process of  
>> stripping off all the gelcoat
>> and applied 10+layers of West System epoxy with Barrier Coating.
>> 
>> 
>> good luck
>> Lou Rosenberg
>> s/v Miracles
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>> On Aug 6, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Tom Hogarty wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18858215/Rhodes22%2Bleaking%2Bhull% 
>>> 2B009.jpg
>>>
>>> Finally launched, but leaked, and trailered to repair.  Appeared to  
>>> fellows
>>> in the marine shop to be winter damage from freezing water.  It was  
>>> a really
>>> nasty winter in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, from where it was shipped.   
>>> We are
>>> undaunted and getting good at working with the mast, down much  
>>> faster than
>>> up.  Ours is a 1982 model.
>>> Tom Hogarty
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