[Rhodes22-list] Void under mast foot planned or developed

[Andrew Collins]

Ah, ditto. I sealed the holes and gelcoat chips with white expoxy, redrilled
for wood screws #8 x 1/2" I believe, sanded smooth, and then redrilled the
holes, and siliconed the taberbacle on to avoid water penetration. Oh, and I
filled the screw holes with toothpicks and epoxy. I had no rot.

Andrew
sv Carmen

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> As Mary Lou and Caesar have noted, the screws allow the tabernacle to
> pop off should the mast, ah, get away from you during lowering it.  Add
> me to the list of those with that experience.  Replace with a coating of
> flexible sealer and seal both screw holes and around the tabernacle and
> cabin top edge. - rob
>
>
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>  Mary Lou,
>
> Good point not using bolts on the tabernacle.
>
> I assume the space under the plywood sandwich was unintended and plan on
> filling the whole feature with plywood, glass mat and polyurethane.
>
> J
>
>
> Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joe,
> > You don't want to replace the screws with bolts. The idea is that if
> > for some reason you drop the mast or forget to move the pop-top
> > slider out of the way when lowering the mast, the screws will pull
> > out and not damage your cabin top. If you had the tabernacle bolted
> > and the mast came down, you could do some serious damage.
> >
> > Mary Lou
> > 1991 R22 Fretless
> > Rock Hall, MD
> >
> > At 12:40 PM 3/3/2009, you wrote:
> >
> >>I just cut into the mast foot over the cabin.  Appears two sheets of
> 3/4"
> ply
> >>were partially rotted.
> >>
> >>Beneath the ply was about 1/4 " void, some hard stuff of undetermined
> origin
> >>was broken and chipped in art of the void.
> >>
> >>I'm guessing that was old epoxy perhaps.
> >>
> >>The void beneath the plywood should be filled, correct?
> >>
> >>Water had worked it's way into the three screw holes.
> >>
> >>Does anyone replace the screws with bolts?
> >>
> >>
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