Nigel Stanley wrote: > Laura Colleen has a cruiser style rear deck. On this are two lockers > snugly taking 19kg gas bottles (the big ones). > > Our recent 20 year insurance survey was fine, apart from a warning > that the lockers are rusting. A slight list on the boat (which I've > mostly sorted using old sash window weights as extra ballast) has made > one particularly bad as it didn't drain properly. Of course I knew > that before the survey but was in a state of denial, and made a point > never looking too closely. But I suppose I should tackle them now. > > I've not had a go yet, but I'm not sure how I am going to get proper > access to the bottom of the lockers as they are deep and narrow. I > don't expect the NSPCC would be too keen on me dangling a small child > by their ankles. > > I'm sure I'm not the only boat owner to have faced this task. Is it > easier than I fear, or does anyone have any advice?
Do dangerous things with an angle grinder? Beatty (cruiser stern) had two 19kg sized gas lockers (one each side of the rear doors) I managed to hold angle grinder (100mm solid disc) near the end, and got to all the rust. It only came out my hand once! I paint the inside of gas lockers with red oxide / undercoat / gloss and then a good few coats of International deck paint on the bottom. I stand the bottles on "criss crossy" plastic outside door mats, cut down to fit. I suppose you could use that posh drydeck stuff. Fortunately with Earnest I can (just) get in the front gas locker...I won't go on about when I last had to do this ;-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - Shannon Reg 7410 Read about the TNC Irish travels at: http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_07/index.html Defend the waterways: http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/
