CL Eleven (Gull) "Ingrid"

Reinforcement was added in the following locations lower pintle is secured foredeck where the chainplate attaches centreboard pivot bolt jib sheet hardware trunk/thwart joint mast step and bow section   Jib sheet hardware and trunk/thwart joint. The thwart received new marine plywood pads for the jib sheet hardware, and also reinforcement adjacent to the centreboard trunk, which this was glued to thwart with a blob of putty.   These areas will be tabbed together with 1708. Mast step and adjacent area This required a shim at the mast itself. Taped and waxed. Laminated in place, cured, then trimmed. Also, the joint tabbing the shelf piece to the hull had failed, so both sides were re-bonded then further reinforced.      

 Was asked to share this with a fellow owner, and have posted here.

 Poor Ingrid - she had been resting on logs, inverted,  under a tarp for years.  Unfortunately her foredeck was not meant to bear this load and over time it got squashed.   Bugged me to look at it, so..... You can see the flat spot. The deck camber was templated. A laminated oak beam was made. The hull was inverted and prepped, you can see the extent to which the camber was lost. Finesse....   A crowbar and bungee cord to force the deck to the beam's camber and secure it while the epoxy cures. Once cured, a piece of 1708 was laminated over top,   This is now the strongest part of the boat! Decided to use the leftover adhesive and scrap fiberglass to make a backing plate for the bow, forward of the oak beam to reinforce the area where the forestay chainplate attaches.   The original was plywood and had rotted to nothing. This was bevelled along its edges and secured with glass-filled epoxy putty.  A layer of 1708 was laminated o...