[Public-list] Reattaching Teak

[Gordon Laco]

No apology required!  I have had my coffee and am not so simple and literal
as I was...

Yes, setting the screws in a caulking compound is the way to do it.

The garboard is the first plank port and stargoard along the keel of a
wooden boat.  Because it is at the demarcation between the boat's skin, her
skeleton (both somewhat flexible) and the immovable external ballast this
plank is the cause of much debating as to the best way to prevent leaks.  In
my old boat her garboards also crossed the long scarf joint between the keel
timber and her rising stem...  The mast step was inconveniently just above
this area.  She had an irritating tendency to be tight when at rest but open
up when both she and I were under stress; such as 2AM while beating to
windward in bad weather and big waves far offshore.

I often get homesick for that boat but ...

Gord


> Sorry for my ignorance :)
> 
> Yes I did indeed mean cockpit coamings.
> 
> Pete
> 
> --- Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Pete - 
>> 
>> I just looked at pics of your boat - and see that
>> she is glass.  She cannot
>> have garboards.   Were the garboards would be can't
>> be anything but solid
>> fibre glass.  Are you referring to your cockpit
>> coamings?
>> 
>> Gord
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I plan to take off the teak to do the initial
>>> refinishing where that is reasonably convenient.
>> I
>>> noticed that the garboards look like they were
>> either
>>> bedded with a lot of some kind of white compound
>> or
>>> caulked all along where fiberglass meets teak.
>>> 
>>> My approach would have been to just put boatlife
>> where
>>> the screws go through the fiberglass.  What is the
>>> proper approach?
>>> 
>>> BTW: If anyone wants to see what Aurora looks like
>> I
>>> put up a few pictures at:
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~aurora554/index.html
>>> 
>>> Pete Staehling
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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