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In building a cement hull today, you would use epoxy bar, wire and add calcium nitrite to the mix which prevents corrosion. You could also treat the finished hull with silicates which you see being used on the floors of the large box stores like Home Depot to densify the...
Concrete !!,,
As a ready mix concrete producer I confirm all the negatives regarding using it as ballast, it really is just a big sponge. It is cheap which is why it is the worlds most used construction material. If you add a vapor retarding admixture Logik900, a corrosion inhibitor such as DCI...
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Similar issue with an 1984 37 albin palm beach. They built it very light to keep the weight down , supposed to be a “fast trawler” but more than likely it was cost that was the real issue. It pushed up through the centerline fiberglass fuel tank and put 200 gal. Of diesel in the parking...
no leaks in shaft packing or around the post which was reglassed 2 years agoby grinding down areas both outside and inside and putting on several layers of glass. the leak at that time was between the post and hull. i suspect there is still a leak and we have redirected it. i do not have any...
Yes, a leak has started in the hull just foward of the rudder post area.
This is an Island Gypsy 32 sedan 1990. It started ladt year so an ispection of the keel showed a small vertical c
rack in the keel end from bottom to the shaft log. I fix that but it made no change to the leak. I guess you...