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| How to prevent soft spots on Hulls (hobie 18)? #43034 01/18/05 03:32 PM 01/18/05 03:32 PM |
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Posts: 70 Louisiana | Any suggestions on how to prevent soft spots from froming on the hulls (on the side and deck) of a Hobie 18?
Sailing a 1980 Hobie-18M with 1990 hulls in Southern Louisiana.
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#43038 01/20/05 01:49 PM 01/20/05 01:49 PM |
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Posts: 805 Gainesville, FL 32607 USA | I'm now repairing/rebuilding the front half of an nearly unused but abandoned & delaminated Prindle 15. The inner skin was no longer attached to the foam, due to standing water inside, and being many years uncovered in the Florida sun. I came to the conclusion that if (waterproof) epoxy had been used inside as a last coat, water would NOT have gone through the inner fiberglass skin to destroy most all of the original polyester resin that held things together for a (long?) while. That skin looked like window screen when I pulled it off, despite someone having tried the polyester injection trick with ~50 holeshots in each panel.
OK- YES- this was someone negligence! But I like simple minded examples. Chrysler was worse than GM or Ford when building rust bucket cars in the 50s and 60s: 3 years later, they were smoking, rust-hole-filled wrecks. So my dad and many other dads would buy a new one! So- Why am I driving a 19 year old Japanese car now that never rusted, looks and runs like new, and not a Chrysler? Am I brain damaged? OK- I will read my previous paragraph again.
Dacarls: A-class USA 196, USA 21, H18, H16 "Nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work"- Thomas Edison
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