These joints between the pieces of the deadwood or skegs are notorious places for leaks. The keel bolts or drifts passing from the ballast keel up through the deadwood, keel and floors allow water to pass up and into the hull. Follow these procedures to repair the keel: 1. Remove the paint or any other coatings or coverings and allow the hull to dry out thoroughly (possibly schedule this work for the spring after the boat has had the winter to dry out). 2. When the seams are open or the keel or deadwood timbers have shrunken, clean out any old paint, caulking or debris.panel insulation rooftop decks wood tile Make sure that the wood in the joints is dry. 3. Work G/flex 655 Adhesive or 105 Resin-based Epoxy thickened with 406 Filler into the joints with a plastic spreader from one side until the epoxy comes out the other side.

Clean up excess epoxy from the surface and allow the epoxy to cure. 4. Either coat the exterior of the skeg or deadwood with epoxy or cover it with a fiberglass/epoxy skin. Orient the fiberglass with the fibers running ��45�� to the grain.drill chuck. If you have many bolts of many lengths to do, you may want to make several hole saws of different lengths (Figure 4-13). 3. After removing the nuts, washers or clinch rings, use the hole saw to chase down along the bolt. The typical hole saw will produce a clean 0.125" annulus around the bolt. Be sure the wood is completely dry. 4. After blowing out the dust and shavings, wrap duct tape around the bolt threads and construct a ?" high dam around the bolt hole with plasticine (modeling clay) (Figure 4-14). building a deck for a round pool5. Overfill the hole with epoxy. Keep the plasticine dam full as the epoxy soaks into the end grain in the hole. 6. After the epoxy has cured, sand the surface smooth, remove the protective tape and replace the washers and nuts. 7. Call the Gougeon Brothers technical staff for more specific discussion of repairing larger keels.

For centuries, carvel planking and laid plank decking were the only methods of enclosing a boat. Carvel planking and laid plank decking are essentially the same method, in which many individual boards are laid edge to edge, fastened to each frame and caulked. Eventually the structure loosens up, the caulking breaks down and the planking becomes a constant source for leaks and endless maintenance. While carvel hull planking and laid plank decks vary in the size and placement of the planks, they are similar in function and can be repaired with the same techniques. As mentioned in Section 1.4.2, discount wood railings in Mauritiusthe ideal reconstruction would be to remove the planking, clean and strip it of paint, and bond it edge to edge and to the framing timbers. If you can do this, you can eliminate places where moisture can become trapped and could then coat both the inside and the outside of the hull with epoxy to encapsulate it.