[Public-List] Where to run wires from the mast into the boat

[John Riley]

ALL fittings or screws that pass through a cored surface should be
drilled oversize, the hole filled with thickened epoxy, then proper size
holes drilled in the epoxy "plug."  This is modern construction
practice.  If the fitting leaks, it leaks INTO the boat, but not
sideways into the coring.

Also, as mentioned, chamfering or beveling the edge of the hole before
bedding helps TREMENDOUSLY, so make sure to do that around any screw
holes as well before bedding.



James Allocco wrote:
> Jeff,
>
>  What concerns me is water migrating sideways thru  the whole and rotting
> the bean or the wooden fillers between the fiberglass.
>   


-- 
John S. Riley
S/V Gaelic Sea
1972 Alberg 30 #521


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