Hard for me to admit it's been 8 years!
8 years ago, I smashed my K19 sailboat into a submerged erratic on Lake Harris (ADK's).
That collision, at speed, with 4 of us on board, damaged my centerboard, and ruptured my centerboard trunk.
I was so disgusted that I put the boat into storage until I could get around to fixing it. The first 5 years it was in a garage at one of my rental properties, the last few behind the detached garage at home.
Well, apparently, getting around to it took 8 years. During that time, a previous quickie repair on the bow suffered quite a bit.
There was quite a bit of delamination near the bow, and of course, that ruptured trunk, as well as damage to the centerboard and rudder.
You can see how far back I had remove the old laminate.
I don't have any pics looking down into the centerboard trunk, but there was a good sized hole punched in it from the centerboard.
After lots and lots of sanding, filling, glassing and cover coating, it's as fixed as it's gonna get.
MDB says leave the bow repair as is, I'm considering more paint, maybe a big shark mouth or similar, to cover my mess while looking intentional.
I had to repair the centerboard using a bunch of Cabosil thickened epoxy, a couple layers of 6 oz glass (don't have any 10 oz laying around), and added Dynel at the bottom.
And I just replaced the rubber bumpers on the trailer. Then, as if there wasn't enough deterioration, the universal joint on my Battlestick (tiller extension) broke! I ordered a new universal (Ronstan) from West Marine, I'll pick that up in store tomorrow. Should be all good until I break something else...
Lastly, for those that just need to know, it's 19'2" OAL, 7'1" beam with 175 sq ft of main and jib. Spinnaker should be another 175 sq ft, but I've yet to find a reasonably priced used sail that matched the design specs. I finished building it in 2002 after about 400 hours of effort. 1/2" thick WRC, a thick mahogany laminated stem and keel plank, 10 oz glass, 1/2" Okoume plywood deck, bulkheads, cockpit and transom, all Ronstan hardware.
The boat fully rigged weighs just around 400 lbs, has a very light tiller, and is well balanced. It is also almost too powerful, planes easily if I can keep it flat.
8 years ago, I smashed my K19 sailboat into a submerged erratic on Lake Harris (ADK's).
That collision, at speed, with 4 of us on board, damaged my centerboard, and ruptured my centerboard trunk.
I was so disgusted that I put the boat into storage until I could get around to fixing it. The first 5 years it was in a garage at one of my rental properties, the last few behind the detached garage at home.
Well, apparently, getting around to it took 8 years. During that time, a previous quickie repair on the bow suffered quite a bit.
There was quite a bit of delamination near the bow, and of course, that ruptured trunk, as well as damage to the centerboard and rudder.
You can see how far back I had remove the old laminate.
I don't have any pics looking down into the centerboard trunk, but there was a good sized hole punched in it from the centerboard.
After lots and lots of sanding, filling, glassing and cover coating, it's as fixed as it's gonna get.
MDB says leave the bow repair as is, I'm considering more paint, maybe a big shark mouth or similar, to cover my mess while looking intentional.
I had to repair the centerboard using a bunch of Cabosil thickened epoxy, a couple layers of 6 oz glass (don't have any 10 oz laying around), and added Dynel at the bottom.
And I just replaced the rubber bumpers on the trailer. Then, as if there wasn't enough deterioration, the universal joint on my Battlestick (tiller extension) broke! I ordered a new universal (Ronstan) from West Marine, I'll pick that up in store tomorrow. Should be all good until I break something else...
Lastly, for those that just need to know, it's 19'2" OAL, 7'1" beam with 175 sq ft of main and jib. Spinnaker should be another 175 sq ft, but I've yet to find a reasonably priced used sail that matched the design specs. I finished building it in 2002 after about 400 hours of effort. 1/2" thick WRC, a thick mahogany laminated stem and keel plank, 10 oz glass, 1/2" Okoume plywood deck, bulkheads, cockpit and transom, all Ronstan hardware.
The boat fully rigged weighs just around 400 lbs, has a very light tiller, and is well balanced. It is also almost too powerful, planes easily if I can keep it flat.
