Re: Wear from beaching - checkout keel guard

From: SolarFry@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 13:13:47 PST


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There is a product available to keep boats from getting ruined by beaching.
A polyurethane compound is glued permanently with 3M adhesive to keel

Best
SF

In a message dated 3/3/00 9:06:51 AM Pacific Standard Time,
tgrimes@gw.bsu.edu writes:

<< Subj: Wear from beaching
 Date: 3/3/00 9:06:51 AM Pacific Standard Time
 From: tgrimes@gw.bsu.edu (Thomas Grimes)
 To: wwpotter@tscnet.com
 
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 Harry
 
 Do you (or does anyone else on the net) have any knowledge of fixes
 for wear on the skegs of an old Potter14 or 15, said wear being due to
 beaching the boat? I crawled under my Potter (on the trailer) a few
 days ago to measure the rollers on the trailer and found that all of
 the gelcoat is worn off the forward ends of the skegs, and the paint
 and gelcoat on the rest of the skegs is scarred and thin.
 
 This wear has to be from beaching. I know that gelcoat is not
 particularly resistant to beaching, and I'd like to feel free to beach
 the boat whenever it is convenient. Do you know whether anyone has
 ever installed wood strips (shoes) on the skegs to keep the fiberglass
 from wearing? If it has been done, how was it done?
 
 It seems to me that oak strips about 3/4 to 1 inch thick, epoxied on
 to the skegs, would do the job. Do you (or does anyone else---Jerry?)
 have any thoughts about this?
 
 Regards
 
 Tom Grimes
 P-14 #363 Far Horizon
 Muncie, Indiana
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