Definite yes on the Butyl Tape. Recommend Bed-It brand. Denatured alcohol will accelerate the process of drying wood. Not familiar with your boat so unsure how you would use it. If you can get the alcohol into/onto the wet wood, it will mix with the water and the resulting solution will evaporate more quickly.
-- Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 12:26 AM Peter McMinn via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Greetings, > I discovered water via failed bedding at the starboard chain plate had > been draining into the cavity behind the settee bulkhead where the > plate/nuts are accessible. It's all glassed but the trapped water sloshed > during sailing and saturated the unsealed plywood edges of the access port. > Now I'm worried about rot around the plate bolts in addition to a wet deck > core. Ugh. > > I've temp sealed the deck plate with Gorilla tape and am considering ways > for drying things under deck (we're on a ball so no AC). Once I get a > handle on any rot issues, I'll be cleaning/rebedding both chainplates. > > Any thoughts on this process? > Thoughts on using butyl tape for bedding instead of 4200? > The nuts/bolts were new when new chainplates were installed in 2011. > Should I replace these? > > >
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