Ingrid's Squashed nose.

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 on top (with the boat inverted). The 1708 spans the foredeck and turns to overlap and bond to the hull topsides. Much stronger than original and not susceptible to water damage.

Work on the bow is done!

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Stem and Transom fittings

Ingrid had very few places to which to tie anything, and I noted as I scanned the internet that later boats and gulls had added some fittings for this purpose. I added some stout fittings adequate to secure the boat to both dock and trailer. The transom was straightforward however the stem required the installation of a fitted oak reinforcement , well bedded in glass-filled epoxy putty and then reinforced with two layers of 1708, making a solid stem post integrated with the fiberglass topsides.

Repair of centreboard trunk

This area appeared to be sound, but after the rot I encountered elsewhere, I thought I’d investigate a bit. I used a holesaw to biopsy the core, thinking I'd replace the disc by epoxying in a stack of fiberglass discs to form a waterproof bushing. The plywood proved to be soaking wet though not rotten. I decided that given the certainty of future water ingress, I'd rebuild this area. . The glass sliced for removal. The piece gently pried off. All residual glass, filler etc ground off. The sheet fiberglass pieces below were cut from the scrap inner transom panel that was removed. Waste not want not! The pieces ready. The fiberglass plate will be epoxied to 1/4" marine plywood which has already been bored for a stack of fiberglass discs. (also cut from the scrap.) The discs will form a solid fiberglass bearing for the centreboard bolt, and the assembly will be epoxied then glassed to the side of the trunk, and to the ...

Various Reinforcements

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.

CL Eleven (Gull) "Ingrid"

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