TopSide seam repair ??'s

[mswindell]

Excuse me for the ignorance, I am posting this ? for a nephew in Spain. This yard has been doing nothing but glass, aluminum and steel hull refurbs for years. Mainly repainting anti fouling and the occasional refurb.

This winter he has a job to haul a carvel planked boat and needs to know the best way to clean the seams and repaint. He was proposing to fill seams with epoxy and fair the hull, but I know this is wrong.

What is the correct procedure for the seams ? I'm assuming that carvel hulls are never perfectly fair and the seams will always be visible to some degree. I thought the seams were reefed and filled with oakum and then a seam compound applied - whatever that is.

Any help will be appreciated, please ignore my ignorance of carvel plank construction.

Mike
Who owns and rebuilt a 18" CC Supersport

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Topsides most boats had a compound, but it is more like a paintable caulking then a seam compound. Interlux make one, but I hesitate to recommend something since I don't know what's available in Spain.

[Jay Greer]

If you can contact the boat yard, Astilleros Gallart in Barcellona, they can probably
help you with your problem.
JG

[py]

With all due respect to your nephew. its kinda scary that any boatyard would even contemplate destroying a wooden boat this way. Tell him to stick to what he knows and send the boat owner elsewhere.