[Public-list] A few rookie questions

[Don Campbell]

Villo;
    There were three deck configurations on Alberg 30s and they are all different.

    I have taken the deck on #528 completely off and so know it like the back of
my hand. There was nothing in that deck that even faintly resembles what you have
described. First: there was no core on the edges of the deck and there were voids
where core was close to the edges. Second, none of the bolts through the deck or
screws into the deck were coated or sealed, nor were the open edges where the cowl
vents gwent through the deck.  Third, the bolts were through balsa rather than
through a reinforced plug of resin. Fourth the deck is a web of approximately 1/8"
outside layers on both top and bottom with 1/4" balso as the web core and there is
very little of the deck that is 1/4 - 1/2inch thick. The only areas like that are
in the areas of the winch bases and on the aft deck, but I presume the earlier
models with built on winch bases were much different again. Fifth, even the chain
plates are not through solid resin.
    Perhaps you should take a stantion base off or look under the cowl vent base
ring on the foredeck  to see what you have on your boat before you define
something that does not exist.
Don #528

Villo Marmei wrote:

> 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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