[C38] Separation Anxiety

Max Soto maxsoto at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 16:18:22 EST 2010


Hey David, could you send me a pic of the place where the liner was  
cut to route the A/C??

Regards,

Max

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On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:42 PM, david at dlrfilms.com wrote:

>> Be careful Dave our boats are overbuilt but when things start to
>> go bad they escalate very quickly.
>
> Indeed! One of the first things I noticed when I pulled the whole  
> thing
> apart is that once the initial detachment occurs (whether liner or  
> that
> weird glassed on chainplate bracket), the whole thing becomes a  
> lever to
> further pull the entire arrangement apart.
>
> In my case, I think the initial weakness was caused by cutting away a
> portion of the liner to route the A/C and not doing nearly enough to
> account for the weakness that caused, and over time the separation  
> spread
> for and aft. I'll be much happier after we push it all back together,
> reglass the weir chainplate bracket and put some no nonsense tabs in
> place.
>
> Which reminds me. My surveyor recomended tabs, which I did. But if  
> you tab
> to a liner that's not well connected to the boat I wonder if you  
> haven't
> made things worse instead of better. I wonder if those tabs actually
> contributed to the problem rather than letting the bulkhead slip and  
> give.
>
> As I said, buyer beware, and another reason to reef way before you  
> think
> you need to!
>
>
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