[C38] (no subject)

[S Orton]

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>
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> > Subject: Re: [C38] (no subject)
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> >
> >> 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
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> >> 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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