[Alberg30] Bedding Shroud Tangs

[FINNUS505 at aol.com]

Hey friends,
I saw this subject of bedding shroud tangs.  It's an 'RE', so I must have 
missed the original question, but here is my experience, for what its worth.
Stargazer is a 1967 A30, #255, and so has the masonite cored deck. There was 
some very old crumbly caulking around the chainplates, and though there was 
no evidence of a leak, I figured one could not be far. 
The crumbly stuff came out easily. Beneath was some kind of cotton or oakum 
jammed in very tight After trying to pull this out and finding that it was 
really jammed in there, I figured that it was watertight, so could still be 
trusted.
I put some masking tape on the deck, leaving a 1/8 to 1/4 inch strip of deck 
visible around each chainplate, and worked a thick bead of 3M 5200 around 
each one, making sure the bead went at least 1/4" up the side of the 
chainplates. Even 5200 can have trouble adhering to SS, so I figured having 
it contact as much of the  SS as possible couldn't hurt.
I gave the 5200 a couple of hours to set, and pulled the tape, and let a few 
days go by before I touched the 5200.  Some dirt from boatyard winds stuck to 
the white 5200, but it was not bad enough to redo the job. 
The chainplates which had not been leaking before still didn't, so I guess it 
worked!    :)
Hope this helps,
Lee               
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