hi, im taking the board out to coppercoat it and the hull and case and reassembling. i dont fancy antifouling every year especialy in there!
anyone got any helpful hint s or experience of doing it before? im geting the yards help but theyve never done it before either.
not much of a summer this , im still up to my elbows in fibreglass dust on our raceboat and kusi hasnt had a lookin.
phil
f 35 ck kusi uk
You are going to copper coat your hull?!?
George
yep, it has been used successfuly in our area and there are lots of places where you can dry out against harbour walls around here if you need to scrub
the problem has always been the cost and effort of applying the antifoul especialy if you read the tin which states that the antifoul isnt suitable for imersion straight away ie shouldnt be done between tides so you have to get the boat lifted which at £500 is a lot of money to spend if you dont need to.
antifouling inside the case seems a problem(whilst recognising that due to low light weed dosent grow , barnacles do.) hence taking the board out which was due inspection anyway and tip repair, which i shall do in kevlar not glass to make it last a bit longer
im hoping to be less tied to the need to haul the boat out every year
also i like a smooth racing finish which means scrubbing the bottom frequently which erodes the conventional paint faster
the deciding factor was that i am still awaiting delivery of my new sailcloth so i thout id get this job done while i cant sail her.
it seems that if applied badly the stuff is useless hence the mix of views on it. also green slime does grow after a while in some areas but when youve got that of theres no need to apply more paint , which is fine with me.
phil
A few pictures of the centreboard in various stages of (partial) removal. I was replacing the bearing and pivot pin at the front. Unfortunately, a month after doing this, I hit a rock in Finland, and the board had to come out again, at great expense. However, I have no pictures of this. The damage was spectacular: the glass fibre casing was split along the entire leading edge, but the lead didn’t fall out. I wrote some notes to guide the repairer, which I think will have to follow in a second reply.
I hope this is the instruction sheet I wrote for the repairer, and another picture, of the lower pivot pin.
Removing the Centreboard .doc (32 KB)
Thank you so much for this! Great to have instructions and I’m hoping it won’t be that different for my new-to-me UK F28/30 that is about to come out of the water for temporary storage. I hope to take advantage of this time to remove the centreboard and repair some grounding and osmosis damage as well as having a good look at the lifting mechanism before I epoxy/coppercoat it and reinstall it.
Simon
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