[Public-list] That brown goo from weeping blisters

[Gordon Laco]

Hi there - 

My #426 is showing signs of water trouble developing around the shrouds and
cockpit floor... I am kicking around the idea of cutting out the topside
skin of the deck in trouble areas, epoxying back up to the deck gradient
with new core... Then to cover the places where I have lifted the deck (and
generally upgrade the boat in my eyes by finding a way to pretend she is
wooden...) I have started looking at having a kit of prefab teak deck made.
Anybody used that stuff?

Looks pretty good (although not cheap)  The deal involves making accurate
patterns of the deck, sending them to the factory which then sends back a
laid teak deck glued to a scrim.  I would then glue the sections onto my
deck.

Gord #426 Surprise









> When I bought White Opal, #528,  there was so much water in the core of the
> deck
> that I had water rising up out of the stantion base holes when I took the
> bolts
> out of the deck. (I knew she was wet before I bought it from both a survey and
> the broker who was selling her.) I redid the whole of the deck on WO. Once
> open,
> the balsa was the colour of nicotine and to black. If this moisture is
> anywhere
> near any of  port lights, stantion bases or chain plates, use a moisture meter
> on the deck, particularly on the deck beside the coach house.
> Don
> 
> Todd Redhead wrote:
> 
>> Alan,
>> 
>> I have had some of the brown stuff up in the curves of my cabin as well.  I
>> think that it is nicotine from old cigarette smoke - at least that is what I
>> decided it was in mine.  I have the same stuff in my house especially in the
>> bathroom (where the humidity is high) that did the same thing - started to
>> oooz out of the paint.  The brown stuff is a sticky, gummy semi-liquid
>> substance that when you smell it has the faint odour of old ciggies.  I plan
>> to sand my inner cabin paint then use several good washes of TSP to get rid
>> of it.  That is what worked in my bathroom at home.
>> 
>> Todd
>> Strathgowan #400
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alan Slater" <alanslater at telus.net>
>> To: <Public-list at alberg30.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:57 PM
>> Subject: [Public-list] That brown goo from weeping blisters
>> 
>> I noticed last week on the discussion "Water in the keel cavity", that one
>> of the pictures showed a blister weeping a brownish liquid, possibly a resin
>> residue.
>> On the inside of my cabin, the curves portions where the sides meet the top,
>> I have many small paint blisters also weeping a brownish liquid. This only
>> happens when the condensation level is high inside the boat.
>> I hope that this is the result of the previous owner using inferior paint,
>> but I wonder if it has anything to do with the fiberglass resin breaking
>> down, as this winter is slotted for a complete interior refinish.
>> I would appreciate any thoughts or ideas on this before I get started.
>> Thanks,
>> Alan Slater
>> "Romp"  #358
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