The only hassle was that the putty is epoxy-based. Milagros’ freeboard is now a light shade of green.
#Wetn ever forward never back how to
Once learned, you never forget how to do it. My many years of experience from working as a construction painter really came in handy for the first time. My good friends Alex, Spike and Hill back home in Switzerland are my first choice of entertainment when doing work on the hull. Mix the two colours 1:1, and when the compound is green after a little mixing, you can start fairing.ĭoing so, I listened to the Cinéswiss podcast of course. In one container the filler is yellow, in the other it is blue. For the filling we used Totalboat Fairing Compound, a two-component epoxy-based filler. I have managed to get rid of most of the small holes. This is after lunch and coffee, and after I have just about finished fairing the boat.
I’m sitting in the Cruisers Lounge at Cabrales Boatyard right now. I am deliberately writing in the past tense here because we made good progress in this respect too. Because the tiny hairline cracks in the gelcoat constantly allowed water to penetrate the fiberglass, we were faced with a hull that had tiny holes everywhere.
#Wetn ever forward never back cracked
This revealed that the cracked gelcoat had led to erosion. We had painstakingly sanded our freeboard down to the old primer and partly to bare fibreglass. It is now covered from top to bottom with Post-Its, on which the many tasks that still need to be done are noted. In order not to lose the overview, we have declared a wall in the boat to be our to-do list. We are making good progress again and are working our way forward step by step. In fact, we have been able to break the curse. So, the 8 old, unused thru-hulls are history now.įor a few days now, our focus has been on the freeboard, the hull above the waterline. After the correction, we put a few layers of fibreglass over the plugs on both sides and after drying, a big sander from SV Alegria was used. The hole saw had to be used again, all the nice plugs in the neatly prepared holes in Milagros’ hull had to come out, and the right material came in. At first, we had closed them with the wrong material. In the meantime, we have also been able to close the superfluous thru-hulls. Goodbye fiberglass work, hello progress! 8 holes less But you know what? That’s history! Water under the bridge! Because we’re done! We have solved the osmosis problem on our underwater hull as best we can, at least temporarily. And so, we were completely frustrated for the first time during the refit.
The fiberglass work on the underwater hull was tough as chewing gum. Forward instead of sideways! That’s how we like it. But we have fought our way through the slump and are now actually working on several projects at the same time. The last few weeks have been frustrating and tough. We never thought that our bottom would cause us so much work.
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