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Dear Eric,
I have a later model that came that way from IM, they (IM) covered my costs to
repair it. It takes surface sanding and adding more fiberglass blankets. I call
it "Orange Peeling" for the stringer blankets release as soon as they put the
boat on the trailer. To prevent it from happening again, replace the bunk
boards, with wider ones before heading down the road again. This really helped
distribute the surface load better in that area and with less flexing the
stringer won't "Orange Peel" again. I'll bet there are a lot more WWP19's with
the same problem, no one really looks that closely.
Ted-Milwaukee WWPotter19"Sea Breeze"
Eric Johnson wrote:
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> I was working on my ship earlier this week, up under the forward seat
> between the v-berth mounting a depth transducer to shoot through the hull,
> when i noticed some bad news - one of the semi-cylindrical stringers (or is
> it technically a 'floor'?) that stiffens up the flat panels of the hull, has
> broken.
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> This is one of the fiberglass reinforcements formed over split cardboard
> tube that runs perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the boat. Where it
> bends underneath the forward seat (the one sorta inside the V-berth) is
> where it broke. The break is front to back, right at the bend (perpendicular
> to the length of the stringer, parallel to the longitudinal axis of the
> boat)
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> Anyone else had the problem? externally there's nothing noticable, and i
> have no idea how long its been broke, but this has been a particularly rough
> year for the boat. Is the fix as obvious as:
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> grind away the broken section,
> sand the surrounding area,
> make a new form from cardboard or PVC or something, and
> lay up a bunch of glass cloth over it?
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> should i put it in the water to do the repair? I'm a little afraid that
> there are different forces acting on it when on the water vs. on the
> trailer. I've done lots of little hole repairs and gelcoat stuff on this
> boat, but have never laid op glass before. Is it as easy as the books
> suggest? This particular repair looks pretty easy since there won't be any
> finish work to worry about.
>
> -Eric Johnson 1988 P19 #461 "Victoria", Bothell, WA
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