[Alberg30] Rookie questions

[Bob]

On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 07:25  PM, Mary & Bill Mahony wrote:

> 2.  The boat has no compass...is there a recommendation for a 
> compass?   Is the little compartment just aft of the companionway the 
> preferred location?
>  
> 3.  The cockpit seat locker panels are deteriorated...any info on what 
> kind of wood these were originally? 


Bill,

If you use a conventional liquid filled compass the compartment in the 
bridge deck is too close to the engine and therefore will make it 
difficult to compensate the compass for deviation. I have mine located 
on the left bulkhead. I'm not sure if flux-gate compasses are in use 
nowadays, but, if so, the indicator could be in the bridge deck as long 
as the flux gate itself is located in an appropriate location away from 
iron or other magnetic material. I use the bridge deck compartment for 
my depth sounder.

On our boat the seat locker panels, lazarette hatch and companionway 
hatch were all laminated teak. I sanded them down to the next layer  of 
teak each time they wore down to the glue joints. After some years, the 
teak in the seat lockers got below the level of the fiberglass top of 
the seat and I replaced the laminated teak with solid teak planks about 
rwo inches wide. The space between planks were filled with a black 
sealant.I found that the seat then would flex along the sealant. (The 
laminated teak had been providing stiffness to the seat.) If you use 
solid planks this way you should put stiffening on the inside of the 
seat.I made the thickness of the teak planks thick enough so that I 
could sand the teak down without taking the surface below the 
surrounding fiberglass.

Good Luck with the new boat,

Bob Johns, Wind Call #397
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