Trim it before you send it!
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A buddy of mine had nearly the same issue with a Tartan 33. It had floors
(athwartships reinforcements running across the bilge). It still flexed
and had the hull/keel joint crack nearly every haul out.
Apparently Tim Jackett was the designer of the Tartan 33. The boat owner
worked with Tim on a fix. The fix was so expensive the boat owner let a
salvage auction site sell it and moved on to a different boat.
I suspect one could fix it with several layers of epoxy glass but I think
it's on the edge of the DIY envelope. Not so much from the glassing
technique aspect but for the design aspect. How much glass? How far up
the bilge shoulder do you glass it? Do you put all the layers in the
bilge/inside of the hull or do you put some on the outside as well?
Those are questions I'd give some serious thought. Personally, if it was
my boat, I'd slap a bunch of epoxy glass on it but then I've done glass
work for years (including retabbing the floors in the above mentioned
Tartan).
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Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 19:31 Stephen Kidd via CnC-List <
> cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
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>> We then had the boat lifted in slings, and the keel continued to flex
>> with a moderate push with a foot. At this point, I noticed that the flex
>> wasn't between the keel and the hull (that was encouraging!), but it was
>> the entire hull flexing. I then climbed aboard and asked the very
>> accommodating marina manager to wiggle the keel, which he did with vigor.
>> The entire bottom of the bilge visibly flexed. Interestingly to me, the
>> keel bolts didn't appear to move relative to the rest of the hull,
>> everything was in it together. The hull/keel joint actually seems pretty
>> solid, so I am glad that we took this step before dropping the keel.
>> The hull flexing is something we should have caught right away, but we
>> looked right past it because we assumed it was the hull/keel joint.
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>> Even if the hull/keel joint is off the hook for the wobble, from past
>> discussions on this list and elsewhere, I suspect this is not a good
>> finding.
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>> Many thanks,
>> Stephen
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