[Alberg30] Re: Fibergalss Work

[Bruce Johnson]

Thanks ! I will send for app. Unfortuantely, putting in a light bulb for me is a advanced mechanical project. Fiberglass repair - forget it. Maybe the boat's time has come. I would be willing to spend say $2,000 to get all the fiberglass work done. Is this a realistic price for a pro?       

>>> gdinwiddie at min.net 04/13/01 02:02PM >>>
Bruce

You can get the Alberg 30 Association application form by sending
an email to 'info-request at alberg30.org' with the subject line
'send application.pdf' (without the quotes).  An automated response
will contain the application.  Note, however, that the maintenance
manual is currently out of print.  Orders with membership renewals
cleaned them out.

The best guy I know for doing fiberglass work is Tim Silvio in
NJ.  He's the guy who did the work on Tern II.  He's not cheap,
but he's really excellent.

Other than that, I'm not sure who I'd recommend for a recoring
job.  For that matter, I'm not sure who would *want* to do it.
I've been slowly fixing deck problems on Calypso.  My work is
certainly not up to the standard of Tim's, but you're welcome
to take a look at it if you want.  I'm certainly not interested
in doing this work on other boats, however.

Jim Menucci's articles in the Maintenance Manual are one way of 
going about it.  He spent two years without sailing.  I've approached
the problem differently.  Rather than spend two years of hard 
work without any sailing, I'm spending a much longer time of having
a boat that's a work-in-progress.

I started with the cockpit sole, which was really squishy in spots.
Starting there has plusses and minusses.  On the plus side, it's
not very noticable.  On the minus side, it's really hard to work
down there.  This was my first-ever fiberglass work and I did an
awful job.  I need to go back and redo that.

Since then, I've done the low cabin top, the lazarette area and
the side decks alongside the cockpit.  The low cabin top and the
lazarette area had noticeable soft areas.  My approach has been
to grind off the fiberglass any place that sounds dull when you
tap on it.  Then I grind out any core that's wet or worse.  I
replace the core with klegecell (from Fiberglass Coatings, Inc.)
and lay up new glass on top.  In some places, the core was fine
but wasn't bonded well with the top skin.  I grind off all of
the diamond-shaped nonskid and fair the surface as well as I can.
I paint with brightsides (2 or three coats), tape off areas for
non-skid and paint another coat of brightsides with the no-skid
beads added.

I've worked a section at a time.  Now that the worst is done,
much of the work is just fairing and filling where I've removed
the non-skid.  That's still a lot of work, and I come across 
small areas that are worth recoring.

 - George

> Bruce Johnson said:
> 
> I  have an Alberg 30, #677 (I think), Merinaut . First I would
> like to re-join the Club. Was a member a number of years ago, but
> had no time to use boat or come to events. Fortunately, things have
> changed. Boat needs fiberglass work. Rear stern deck (poop-deck?)
> is spongy as is cockpit floor. I would love to hire a club member
> to do work, or get a recommendation from members. I know it is
> going to cost more then is probably justified by boat value, but
> I love the boat and feel I owe it to the boat. Besides I intend to
> keep it  for a long time. Will also need electrical work. Boat is
> now out of water at Herrington Harbor North. Woodworking is being
> done there now, but I will be looking for new home  when boat goes
> in water probably in  May. HHN will only allow people with a
> ridiculously high bond to work on boats at there facility (this
> requirement of course is to give their over- priced trade  tenants
> the work- one of the reasons I am leaving).   Any help is greatly
> appreciated. 
> 
> Bruce Johnson   

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