There's an old deck hand at the marina who is going to help us lower the keel, clean it up and reseal the joint. His description of the process goes something like this:
- Loosen keel bolts
- Raise the boat by slooowly adjusting the height of the sticks
- Open the crack, clean, add sealant
- Reverse process
After reading up on this here, in particular in this thread, http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoexchange/showthread.php?1042-Keel-to-Hull-joint-repair-on-84-30, I'm wondering if this isn't a little too neat and simple. Isn't the 30+ a keel-stepped mast, and won't doing this w/ out dropping the mast be, well, bad?
The search engine has been helpful here, but there's a basic foundation of knowledge of how this stuff ties together that is eluding me.
- Chris
- Loosen keel bolts
- Raise the boat by slooowly adjusting the height of the sticks
- Open the crack, clean, add sealant
- Reverse process
After reading up on this here, in particular in this thread, http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoexchange/showthread.php?1042-Keel-to-Hull-joint-repair-on-84-30, I'm wondering if this isn't a little too neat and simple. Isn't the 30+ a keel-stepped mast, and won't doing this w/ out dropping the mast be, well, bad?
The search engine has been helpful here, but there's a basic foundation of knowledge of how this stuff ties together that is eluding me.
- Chris