Recent content by Hagar2sail

Now the next task is putting everything back on. One question is for the sea hood / turtle shell. That has a HUGE contact area. I don’t know what it was installed with last time. Seemed more adhesive than silicone, but then it felt like they came back later and filled between the sea hood and...

Ok well many fun times in a bunny suit with the well recommended hat on and I am done with the repair. Ended up going with g10. Had to break it into two rectangles to get the appropriate fit to the overhead, but happy with how it came out. A little irritated that on the 4th and final layer of...

From my notes I had 2.5in diameter by .480 wide on 3/8 axles. But like Loren says those were my exact dimensions. Your mileage may vary. As a note I showed my most worn axel was actually .369 but we left it as .375 nominal. I would encourage you to remove the old ones and measure vs adopting...

glad you mentioned breaking the work into smaller sections. I was thinking of extending the repair forward, but that was going to expand the project creep even further. Once you said that, I realized that it was probably a natural breaking point anyway. I tried to dig out the aft core, but it...

Did you use something to hold the g10 into the overhead, or did you find the epoxy could hold it enough?

Thanks guys for all the support and help, I will keep you all posted. Probably be sanding and prepping the under deck area, and need to puzzle out that back area.

Excellent, thanks for the info, that does make me feel better. I am trying not to let the boat project creep get too much the best of me. The top layer of teak on the plywood on the aft cabin bulkhead has lifted in areas I am sure from moisture from cooking, but I am trying to resist the urge...

To be clear, I wasn't thinking of coring in resin alone, I was going to lay up 15-25? layers of glass until we were built back to up to thickness. I was going to go for G10, but I am questioning how fair I could get that to sit, since this section has a large radius. Not set in stone yet, I do...

The whole sea hood setup has me scratching my head a little. First, there were no stops on our hatch lol, it comes right out. Been that way since we owned the boat. When I took the sea hood off, I found broken blocks of wood. Could it have been hit hard enough to snap them!?!? Either that...

Yes, we have been working on doing that in sections over the year. One thing we found that was odd, when we went to do the deck organizer holes, it seemed that we were in solid glass?? We had actually done the holes for the clutches and winches in the same time frame 5 years ago, chiseling the...

So last season I was moving a rope clutch on the cabin top and had the headliner unzipped. It happened to be drizzling out the next day after I was done, and I still had the headliner open, but all the sudden I felt a drip on me. I looked up and it was coming off the headliner. This lead me on a...

Hey Sean. Sure we would love that. Sorry this reply took forever must have missed the forum notification. Send me a PM and we can figure it out.

We were previously members of the Maine Ericson Association before it broke up. We sail out of Casco bay and just finished two weeks on the boat going to Penobscot and back. Happy to provide any info I can for facilities in Maine. Once you get into late September and October the sailing is...

Thank you so much for all the info. Using the order list at the top we successfully joined the 35-3 large sink club. My wife is over the moon. Now we just have to figure out how to split out the aft door to the trash and soap storage.

I bypass the heater and just drain it as well