[Public-list] ToeRail

[J Bergquist]

Tory-

I checked out your blog. Very nice pix of the icebox removal. I am
very interested to see how your nav station and new icebox comes out.
I am currently in the process of doing that job myself.

I am installing the icebox more or less in the same place as the old
icebox, but I have removed the deck access and fiberglassed it over
(the skylight idea did not occur to me...sadly...because I htink it's
a good idea). I installed a new electrical panel outboard and will be
building a top-loading cooler in place of the old one, keeping the
forward part of my port side settee as it was. It looks like you'll be
installing your icebox portside forward. That is interesting.

I will be putting pix up on my blog at some point, but haven't gotten
round to it yet. At any rate, I am very interested to see what y'all
do. Thanks for the posting and for the link.

later,

J Bergquist

On 4/25/07, Victoria Chew <victoria_g_chew at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>    Bobby,
>    We've just begun tackling the same project on Osprey (#171) here in
>    Rhode Island.  While living aboard over this past winter we noticed
>    more water than could be attributed to the usual condensation and
>    identified the teak toerail as the culprit.  This past week we removed
>    the teak rubrail which had been installed by the previous owner, which
>    had created a drainage problem on deck and led the teak torail to
>    rot.  We had planned to take the toerail off, varnish and rebed.
>    Simple enough!  Upon seeing how bad the teak was rotting, we opted to
>    take it off and replace with an aluminum toerail.  We don't have the
>    time at our disposal to install a new teak toerail, so this looked to
>    be our best solution.  We have also removed all of our deck hardware
>    to sand and Awlgrip the decks and replace the nonskid.  The genoa
>    track was very easy to remove on Osprey, we had one person hold a
>    flathead screwdriver on deck and someone went below with a ratchet and
>    loosened the nut.  We used the same technique for the stanchions,
>    which we found to also be leaking!  We are trying to keep updated
>    photos of our current projects on our website, [1]www.svosprey.com
>    (click on the "blog" and there is a link to the right for the photo
>    gallery), though we aren't spending as much time on the website as we
>    are in the boatyard!
>    Best of luck,
>    Tory
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>    1. http://www.svosprey.com/
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