Wisconsin – no boats
I’m in Wisconsin on business (for most of the next month or so) and I miss my boat. I wonder if she misses me. Sigh.
On Friday, I stopped off to see the Indian Summer, and noticed that some of the repair work in the cabin panelling is bubbling and turning green. I don’t think its below a leak – I think the leak was in the past and has been all stopped up, but now the corner which was replaced with looks like fiberglass is falling apart. I’m really hoping it isn’t a leak, cause I have been over the outside of that corner repeatedly and cannot find a single spot which could be leaking. I’m stumped.
So, I’m going to go with the assumption that its not a leak, just needs some work. Problem is, I have no idea what type of work or where to begin. I’ve looked at a variety of websites, all the books I have, and talked to my dad. He had no suggestions. So, next I’ll talk to my brother. It may end up involving clandestine conversation with my sister-in-law to trick him into coming for a visit with the ulterior motive to make him diagnose what is wrong with boat. In lieu of trying to manipulate my brother, an in the absence of a better idea, I’ll probably try to sand down the bad regions, check what is underneath, and if I don’t find anything, replace with fake wood.
Anyone have any better ideas?
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Indian Summer
I have a boat. Sometimes, she tries to kill me, but I know its only because she loves me.
My boat is a 1968 Coronado 25, which means she’s older than me and has become a “classic beauty.”
Fly to Spain, meet-up with Petronius blog guy, freak him out with weird blog readers 1/2 way across the world, get some boat repair tips, do some sailing, fly back. w00t! Or, wear low-cut shirt and patrol the dockyards looking for good-looking boats, and the handy people about them.
Hmm, low-cut shirt, that I can do! But Anna, you’ve seen some of the locals…
The problem with leaks is that many times where you see them (results) is not where they came from…
good luck
Maybe, with it being ‘green’, there is some fastenings underneath that are bronze or copper? and that previous leak caused some oxidisation of the metal, and possibly it was still damp prior to repair and now it’s trying to escape. As the original problem prior to repair wasn’t clear/specified, and location of etc etc I am just only stabbing in the dark like all others. Photographs would be useful.