[Public-list] Another Kingsland Crazy Idea

[Jim & Carole]

I thought of a couple of reason you might not want to close off those areas it the cockpit lockers.

1 Last year I installed fresh water cooling and the best place I found to locate the heat exchanger was forward in the port side locker. 

2 My bilge hose runs through  that area,  maybe not yours.

Jim Allocco
Barchetta Mia #565   

-----Original Message-----
From:	Gordon Laco [SMTP:mainstay at csolve.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:53 AM
To:	Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
Subject:	Re: [Public-list] Another Kingsland Crazy Idea

Good day Roger - 

Your ideas are not weird at all... I have been thinking about the same
thing.  In the wooden boat world there is an very old tradition of pouring
melted pitch or hot tar into inaccessible spaces to prevent water or crud
from collecting there.  I had a space like that in my old boat's stern.  In
our Alberg I would like someday to make plywood triangles that can be
screwed in to block off those spaces.  Periodically the triangles could be
removed to allow cleaning underneath.

I don't much like the idea of pouring epoxy down there because our hulls -
though strong and thick - are quite flexible and two bad things would be
likely.  One is that the block of stuff that fills in the space will
inevitably separate from the hull and water and crud will get under it.  The
second bad thing stems from the fact that the block of filler would be much
stiffer than the hull - while it remains stuck to the hull there will be a
hard spot around it's outline that the hull would have to bend around - and
this can cause a failure in the adjacent hull laminations.

Gord
#426 Surprise







> Albergers,
> 
> I hate those really low spots (forward and inboard) in the cockpit lockers
> because everything migrates there and they are just out of reach.  (Plus, my
> port locker drain hole somehow directs the water behind the engine mount and
> it ends up on the cabin sole; it only took a year to discover why that was
> happening.)  I thought of installing triangular false floors at the bottom of
> the lockers and am exploring a few options; 1) filling the area w/ packing
> peanuts and drowning them in epoxy (afraid, however, that the heat of the
> curing epoxy would melt the peanuts) and perhaps cause a weird chemical
> reaction), 2) same thing only use ping pong balls (afraid of same heat problem
> then realized both balls and nuts would float to the surface of the epoxy
> anyway),  3) install 1/4" plywood "false floor" and fill cavity with some of
> that expanding foam that comes in a can.
> 
> So the questions; 1) can anyone think of a "filler" material slightly less
> buoyant than epoxy that I can add as an aggregate to fill the cavities (of
> course, if it has to be heavier than epoxy, perhaps it isn't desirable to add
> that much weight) or, 2) what kind of foam in a can I should use to fill the
> cavity created by the false floor?
> 
> Roger Kingsland
> Chief Financial Officer (AKA, check writer)
> PERFECT intentions, A30 #148
> N40?  29.288'
> W79?  54.228'
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