[Alberg30] Rudder - Gudgeon area inside hull

[RABBIT649 at aol.com]

I dug that area out on #23, There is a 24" area between the back of the 
internal pig iron ballast and the very back edge where the gudgeon (a kind of cast 
bronze shoe fitted into a recessed area in the heel of the boat) is screwed in 
strictly from the bottom (not side to side). That area inside the hull was 
filled with a rough cut piece of 2 by 4 and thoro-seal cement and then covered 
with raw resin to provide a finish to the bilge fair with the top of the 
ballast below the engine area. Oil from the engine had deteriorated the resin 
covering and the wood and cement were infiltrated with oil and water. So I hung 
upside down for days to dig and clean it out, and I can tell you, the bottom of 
the hull is maybe 2-3 inches thick and inside of that is nothing you can really 
trust to hold anything, especially if it's been compromised as mine was over 
the years.
Now, keep in mind that mine is an early (linerless) boat and that the area 
was full of oily bilge for most of its life. Also, techniques of how this area 
was finished off may have changed when the original hull molds burned and the 
new molds made. I can only tell you about my boat.
I wound up filling the area with a mixture of chopped mat and resin.
Good luck.
Paul Cicchetti
#23 Ashwagh





In a message dated 6/10/2003 6:32:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dickdurk at intercom.net writes:

> Subj: Re: [Alberg30] Rudder 
>  Date: 6/10/2003 6:32:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>  From: <A HREF="mailto:dickdurk at intercom.net">dickdurk at intercom.net</A>
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> 
> 
> >I don't know what is between the side of the gugeon-- is it solid and if so
> instead of screws I could bolt from side to side--On #220 There is a
> considerable amount of wood all in that area. I was concerned about losing
> the bottom shoe and ran a fairly large lag bolt up from the bottom-the drill
> found wood there, anyway. In any case there is something solid there-I don't
> think you have to worry about watertight integrity-just 1. getting the hole
> to line up with the tangs on the gudgeon-they are not parrallel 2. fairing
> the nut.
> 
> >do the screws go across into itself like the middle or  into something
> solid in the bottom of the keel
> They go into some sort of threaded sleeve. It has been reworked on mine; I
> don't know what was original.
> 
> Michael
> #220

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