[Public-list] A few rookie questions

[Villo Marmei]

Come on now you fellows....
Cracks on the deck are small stress Gellcoat cracks .010 to .020 deep... 
nothing to worry about.

Underneath you have solid fiberglass 1/4-3/8 to 1/2 inch thick.

I usually do not wax my boat deck because it becomes slippery.....but I 
fill with wax all the small cracks in the cockpit corners and other areas 
on deck only because I do not want any small water to penetrate theses 
cracks and stay under the gellcoat.
Water gets into the boat deck core by way of screw and bolt holes that have 
not been properly sealed with caulking...that is bad and dangerous when 
water freezes in winter and rots the deck core during summer
Villo on AHTI-KC


At 08:01 PM 9/20/2006, you wrote:
>cathie & john coultis wrote:
> > Don I
> > now recall seeing cracks along the deck.  Hopefully, it will just be a
> > matter of re-bedding/sealing the ports/genny tracks and toe rails
> > (chainplates are another issue).  However, what is your suggestion for
> > repairing the cracks in the deck and around the area where the forward 
> cabin
> > (the "doghouse"- where our 2 golden retrievers have the entire forepeak to
> > call their home) meets the deck?
>
>Cracks around the cabin top are probably just leaking into the deck
>core, rather than into the boat, itself.  They still need to be fixed,
>of course.  A simple way is to scrape them with a sharp "church key"
>(used to open beercans before pop-tops, see
>http://www.acemart.com/graphics/00000001/products/aaatap1.jpg) to form a
>V-shaped groove.  Then fill them with thickened epoxy resin.
>
>
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