[C38] (no subject)
S Orton
ssorton at hotmail.com
Thu May 5 01:49:33 EDT 2011
Joe, Did you actually see the clam shell mold? If so where was the hinge located? I would think it would be somewhere below the stub keel. This discussion makes me feel a lot better about the structural aspect of the Cat38- it is a one piece hull, not a hull made in halves and butted together with epoxy. This also confirms why I could never find in the interior a parting line which would result from a 2 piece hull. But a crack that Steve S found on his boat is not good in my opinion. What caused the cracks? What is the surrounding material- bondo? I guess I would of repaired it with glass cloth and epoxy or vinylester down to sound hull material and fair out about 6" all the way around. When our boat was peeled I don't remember seeing any filler material in that area, so what Steve S saw is very concerning to me. But this is an ex aero space structural engineer talking and I must remember these boats have existed for 20 plus years and I have never heard of a hull coming apart.
Cheers, Steve O (Santa Susanna, #304)
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 20:34:16 -0700
> From: jlaunie at cox.net
> To: listserve at catalina38.org
> Subject: Re: [C38] (no subject)
>
> actually, it was a very expensive one piece mold with hinges in the
> middle. The cost of the mold is the reason they stopped making the boat.
> Joe Launie, Macavity
>
> On 5/4/2011 1:13 PM, Dick Kilroy wrote:
> > With the reverse transom the boat had to have been made in half's. One
> > peace would be very hard to get out of the mold.
> >
> > Dick
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Soto" <maxsoto at gmail.com>
> > To: "Catalina 38 Listserve" <listserve at catalina38.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: [C38] (no subject)
> >
> >
> >> Weren't our hulls made in two halves????? Or were the molds????
> >> While working out some blisters a while ago I noticed somo voids in
> >> the center line of the hull, right were the crack runs.... Just
> >> filled it with redin, and leaved it alone.
> >> I noticed that the hull has what looks like the balsa wood strip
> >> running down on the center of a surfboard ( but of course, it wasn't
> >> balsa)... That's were the crack in this pic is located...
> >>
> >> Max
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPod
> >>
> >> On May 3, 2011, at 23:28, "Steve Smolinske"
> >> <SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Center line crack
> >>>
> >>> <photo.JPG>
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> >>>
> >>> Steve Smolinske
> >>>
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