Dave Hadfield
05-31-2002, 08:55 AM
Well it worked again. For the second year in a row Drake went into the water after 6 months on the hard and leaked hardly at all.
My order of business once the tarps came off was to work on the bottom as required, then run 4ft lengths of shop towel, some folded lengthways, from the bilge up along the sides, fitted in between the frames. Then keep them wet. For the next 10 days I worked on all the other jobs while the planks tightened up.
I hung in the slings overnight as a precaution, but the bilge pump came on about once every 2 hours. The only real leaks I had were from the centerboard trunk. I had soaked it too by hanging shop towels down from a line tied round the thing, but it was less efficient.
Next year I'm going to seal up the CB slot from below and fill the trunk to swell its planks. That ought to do the trick. I can seal it by pressing a piece of closed cell foam up under the keel, backed by some flexible plywood, pushing by means of 3 or 4 car screw-jacks.
Sure is nice to see it afloat again. With a lot of new paint, too!
[ 05-31-2002, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: Dave Hadfield ]
My order of business once the tarps came off was to work on the bottom as required, then run 4ft lengths of shop towel, some folded lengthways, from the bilge up along the sides, fitted in between the frames. Then keep them wet. For the next 10 days I worked on all the other jobs while the planks tightened up.
I hung in the slings overnight as a precaution, but the bilge pump came on about once every 2 hours. The only real leaks I had were from the centerboard trunk. I had soaked it too by hanging shop towels down from a line tied round the thing, but it was less efficient.
Next year I'm going to seal up the CB slot from below and fill the trunk to swell its planks. That ought to do the trick. I can seal it by pressing a piece of closed cell foam up under the keel, backed by some flexible plywood, pushing by means of 3 or 4 car screw-jacks.
Sure is nice to see it afloat again. With a lot of new paint, too!
[ 05-31-2002, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: Dave Hadfield ]