[Rhodes22-list] How's your keel work progressing?

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Thu Jul 31 22:10:00 EDT 2014


Graham,

After using a bit of rum to massage my frontal lobes, I came up with the
following -

Heat the keel on the outside (both sides) as described earlier. 

Monitor the temperature of the keel on the inside, in the (shallow) bilge.

Once the temperature risen and stabilized, turn off the fan in the boat each
evening, and monitor the relative humidity of the bilge in the morning. Turn
the fan back on during the day. 

As ideas go, it's not much, given that the relative humidity in the boat's
environment will change over time - but perhaps there will be some gross
change when the keel has officially dried out. 

That's all I've got. Back to your evening.

Dennis
Magic Moments
Never unsure, but frequently wrong

 

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Thanks Rummy:

I have tried both sucking and blowing. The water is at the bottom of the
keel in and around the cement fill which is cracked so I can't get a tube
down there to suck up the water. So now I have drilled some holes at the
outside bottom of the keel and have the  shop vac blowing in from the top in
the hope that the pressure will push the water out. It is working to some
degree and at least I can see if the water is dripping. When I drill a new
hole I often find that the material the comes out is damp. I doubt that
either strategy will work and even evaporation seems problematic as the
water is in and around the keel material where there would be very little
air circulating. If I seal it up while there is any significant water in
there I might well have the problem of the cracks develop come freeze up. 

I have wondered about these options: 



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