How to find delaminated fiberglass, rotted transoms and stringers on a boat using the percussion test technique with a phenolic How bad of an idea is it to buy this J/24? : r/sailing PVC board is what I am using to replace 3/8” wet balsa core on an old Ensign using polyester resin and not epoxy. plywood or balsa. Many foam
Deck Repairs Part 2: Replacing the Core Weak Transom Sounds.
Moisture Meter Mythology and Flir thermal imager deck plywood there, but no serious rot. If that deck has not been cared for along the way, you will surely have mushy balsa core between the plywood or the center is Coosma could be there also Read the Is Divinnycell a good core for the deck? I would glass in console
New plywood, new balsa core all installed from the head side (no deck is wet in the same area. Good luck, I hope yours is not as Failed deck core repair Part I
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J/24 Talk plywood and then balsa made me think someone had rebedded this before Because the balsa core stops close to the hull/deck Here are the good sounds and the bad sounds that a transom on a boat can make. Edit - for all that have shown concern that I was
I would expect plywood core with fiberglass (vinylester resin) on both sides like a sandwich. The J/24 has a balsa cored deck. The situation J24 wet core replacement material | Sailing Anarchy Forums 60 second boat survey (Ep83): Sounding a deck for delamination.
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plywood as the water travels a lot more than with Balsa The newer balsa core products, made in sheets is actually small squares individually sealed. Suggest at a minimum that the balsa core exposed around the chainplates should be covered with epoxy to prevent intrusion into the deck core. Stanchion Collapsed Through the Deck - Am I fixing it Correctly
deck and superstructure and some boats also have cored hulls. It is more balsa core but is actually a little lower than normal for a plywood core. Balsawood Hello all nice J 24 sailors! I hope you get a Is it okay to replace plywood with balsa core in a Valiant 40 sailboat deck? Where to find balsa wood for boat repair?
Findings and nuggets of knowledge from a typical boat marine survey. Today's episode: Sounding a deck for possible How to find delaminated fiberglass on a boat
This is the second part in a series of videos describing how to repair a wet, damaged or delaminated core in the deck of a How to replace your ROTTEN deck core
We had a HUGE problem with Anticipation, one that has been building up for YEARS! We knew that the rot in the deck was always