Several people have given me useful feed-back in dealing with my leaks, this is
a bit of an up-date that might be helpful to someone else, and a question or
two.
I used a hand-screwdriver and tightened all the toe-rail bolts, hand-tight. At
a guess something like 80% tightened up in a quarter turn, the rest did not.
Since most of the nuts on the bolts are inaccessible, except in the vee berth,
I think there isn't much I can do about that. And since some grey play-dough
type material has been coming out in the vee berth area for several years, I'm
assuming that that is the butyl compound that has been mentioned and I don’t
want to squeeze out any more.
I want to try the Captain Tolley Creeping Crack liquid but since the toe rail
seems to be an inverted “T” i.e. vertical piece containing the slots teeing
into a horizontal piece that meets the deck, the only gap is horizontal on the
in-board and out-board parts of the toe-rail. I wonder if the Tolley stuff will
work its way into a horizontal crack? Secondly I assume that everything should
be dry for it to work. I don’t think applying heat from e.g. a hair-dryer will
dry it out properly in rainy weather?
If this were an expensive boat, and made later than 1983, and if I were younger
than 75, and could afford it, I suppose that a yard might take off the toe-rail
and re-bed it, but since none of those conditions apply, this won’t be
happening!
Interestingly the water in the bilge has always been fresh until I took her out
recently in 20 knots gusting 25 and maybe 30, so we were heeling a lot, and
when we came back in there was new water in the bilge and it tasted slightly
salty. This suggests that a primary source of the leaks is the toe-rail.
Patrick Wesley
S/V The Boat C& C 24 MK II
Sidney BC Canada
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