I suspect what has happened is that individuals profiles are dropping ‘general mailing list’. This is what happens to me. If I haven’t received anything in a while, I go to the site and check my profile, and invariably I need to re-check ‘general mailing list’. Only reason I saw you mail is because I did this. I believe most folks rely on getting e-mails.

In any case, work proceeds unabated on Blue Moon. Deck paint with Awlcraft complete, and still working the non-skid with Interlux Interdeck. Going well so far…still need to do side decks and foredeck. Hope to get the Bimini frame and dodger installed early next week.

David
Blue Moon, #189

Resending this from the web, as I don’t know if responses are getting out via the e-mail. In any case, e-mail responses don’t seem to be posting to the website.

Hello Rich,

I replaced a 2.5 by 3 ft section of deck on the port side, basically adjacent the forward hatch and extending to the edge of the deck house. This is about the broadest contiguous area of the deck, and I replaced it due to what I considered excessive flexing. I also had ‘crackling’ underfoot, over most areas of the deck on the deck house, but the flexing was in the area described. What I found was, that the balsa core was in remarkably good shape, which was in a way a drawback because it was hell removing it. Why was the deck flexing? I simply don’t know. But now, it is pretty darned solid. I took core samples with a 1 inch paddle bit throughout the rest of the deck, on the cabin top, and found no rot, no wet balsa, and no good reason to proceed with more core replacement. I believe that the crackling sound that I hear is related to the plywood batts that are screwed to the bottom of the deck, and to which the cabin ceiling is screwed. Someday, I may remove the headliner and the batts, and re-install the batts in a wet bed of thickened epoxy. That should eliminate the noise and strengthen the deck to boot.

I too did the stanchion bases. I ground out the glass and balsa all the way to the bottom fiberglass layer, and built it back up with solid biax glass. Perhaps overkill, but pretty solid now. I also found the balsa core in the stanchion base areas to be in remarkably good shape, except for on two or three where I found wet balsa and or rotted and missing balsa. The damage looked much worse from on top, before I started the project. A lot of fiberglass or gelcoat cracks. Also the stanchion bases were pretty loose which turned out to be for the most part loose nuts on the underside.

David

typhoontye wrote:

I suspect what has happened is that individuals profiles are dropping ‘general mailing list’. This is what happens to me. If I haven’t received anything in a while, I go to the site and check my profile, and invariably I need to re-check ‘general mailing list’.

Aaaand, that’s what happened to me. Thanks for the tip, David!

Evan
Revery

I'm in MA getting prepped for Hermine!

I think so!!! I’m getting posts

Calico Jack, did you change your settings at all? 

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