Posted by Alan Kusinitz (akusinitz@…>)
A friend of mine ran his boat on a reef
and bent the rudder post which then sprung a leak. Fortunately on his boat the
rudder post is enclosed in a compartment that goes above the waterline…otherwise…
So the pvc idea is the same concept.
The pvs with 4200 to hold it should be
fine if everything is clean when you do it since you don’t need much of a
bond this way. There’s no real pressure on it.
Alan
From:
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007
5:15 PM
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Subject: [freedomyachts2003] Re:
Need help troubleshooting leak
— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com,
“Alan Kusinitz” <akusinitz@…> wrote:
You could use the pvc bed the tubing to the hull and use a long enough
tube
so its top is above the waterline. So if there is a leak there’s no
problem.
This way you can bed it to a dry surface and not try to bed to the
bolts/nuts themselves which may be wet or have water pressure while the
compound is drying and thus the seal will be bad.With this approach there would be a lot less mess and its probably easier
(assuming there is enough height for a long enough section of PVC to fit
in
and go above the waterline. Otherwise I suppose you could seal the top of
it
too.Alan
That’s not a bad idea. The bolts are directly under the aft part of the
cockpit sole. It’s
the bolts that hold the strut for the propeller shaft. That would contain the
water, without
building any pressure. I’m going to use 4200 to bed the pvc tubes because I
want to get
them out of there when I haul the boat and replace the bolts.
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