[Rhodes22-list] Bow Chocks

[Dennis]

Butyl tape is my bedding material of choice too, Graham. Stays flexible
almost forever, seals well to both hardware and fiberglass, and stretches
readily without breaking those seals. Scroll to the bottom of the page at
http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/butyl_tape for an "I'll believe it when I
see it" demonstration. 

The chop kicks up quickly on Lake Erie when the wind picks up, and spray
keeps the foredeck wet almost continually. I was doing well avoiding the
bigger waves one day last year - until barreling into a sizeable wave and
having about 2 - 3" of green water sluice across the foredeck. The water
continued sluicing over Sandi, who gave me a dark, wet look - (do 'looks'
get any worse?) 

I didn't even ask - time to head back to the dock.

But I digress. I'm not affiliated with the butyl tape supplier above - but I
own two rolls of the stuff and have been slowly rebedding all the hardware
and ports with it.

And now, if you'll excuse me - spring is springing without me ;)


Dennis 

www.great-loop.us
s/v Magic Moments
berthed in Gibraltar, Michigan



-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Graham Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 3:43 PM
To: 'The Rhodes 22 Email List'
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bow Chocks

All this concern about attaching hardware might seem like overkill but
perhaps my experience might put it all into context. On my older Rhodes (74)
I had spider cracking around absolutely every hole drilled to hold any
hardware. In addition I had rot in the fore deck core. I have now replaced
the core in the entire foredeck, stripped the boat of absolutely all
hardware, dug out or ground away all of the cracks, filled everything with
epoxy filler, re-glassed and faired all of the areas that had been non-skid,
sanded all of the deck and cockpit surfaces - repeatedly and endlessly- ,
applied epoxy base coat and am in the process of spray painting the whole
deck - having first to learn how to spray paint. After the painting I will
need to apply non-skid and reinstall all of the hardware.  All of this is
not a trivial task having consumed most of my free summer time for three
years now and you can be darned sure that when I get to the point of
reinstalling the hardware the holes will be oversized, the core exposed  in
the  hole will be well sealed with epoxy, it will be bedded in butyl, 

-> snipped