[Public-list] Space Above Keel

[5thseason at canada.com]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:21:19 -0500, John Irving wrote:
John
I did not remove the glass cover over the ballast,
although when tapped it sounded a little hollow.  My
understanding is that epoxy was dropped into the hull
and the ballast then lowered into this mixture.
John Boor
MAHSEER 380 
> 
> Just curious, did you have an opportunity to evaluate
> the construction
> of the glass cover? It would be interesting to know
> what would hold
> the ballast in place if the boat were ever to turn
> turtle.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:46:26 -0800 (PST),
> 5thseason at canada.com
> <5thseason at canada.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:13:12 -0500, "Roger L
> Kingsland"
> > wrote:
> > Roger
> > I have replaced the bottom of my bilge locker.  It
is
> > plywood over a sealed glass bottom, (this glass
cover
> > is to keep water out of the cast iron ballast).
When I
> > rebuilt the bilge I made some changes and have
> > installed my 4x 6v 225Ahr house batteries and
starting
> > battery in there photos available if needed.
> > John Boor
> > MAHSEER 280
> > >

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