This week I had the mast foot welded (about USD 30), sewn and taped the batten pocket, made a replacement tiller cross arm and replaced the broken battens with their spares.
Today I trailed the SC15 to the shipyard, together with two Lasers from the sailing school that also need repairs.
The shipyard owner is considering four alternatives:
a) Open the entire hull longitudinally, fix each side and glue them back. This allows the entire hull to be inspected and fixed, but is time consuming (expensive) and probably adds weight.
b) Open longitudinally from the bow to the crowwbeam and chop off the inside half only. With good access to both sides of the bow, it can be properly fixed and glued back in place with minimal extra weight. This is simpler and faster, but we can't inspect the entire hull.
c) Take molds of the damaged part (or the entire bow) from the other hull and laminate a new section to glue in place. This seems complicated and we can't inspect the entire hull.
d) Take moulds from the other hull and make a new hull. This is expensive and requires permission from the designer, but would yield the best result - at the highest cost.
