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Sorry, Tom. I haven't heard of any fixes. I would probably just make a
repair with epoxy, but my boat is generally a sad looking specimen now.
Fortunately the early Potters had skegs that were solid glass. Some, if not
all, of the later ones are hollow. When I visited the HMS Marine factory in
1970, Herb Stewart or someone there was bragging about the solid skegs and
mentioned sailing right onto the launch ramp at Folsom Lake.
Harry
>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
>
> 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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