I am wanting to buy a catalina 22 that has been sitting on a trailer for seven years. There is a delamination on the interior bottom floor of the hull in the cabin on the port side underneath one of the lift off covers. It is a crack that is about 10 inches long. I can grip the edge with my fingers and lift up slightly. There seems to be a brown or black wood looking substance underneath. Is this repairable by fiberglass patch?? Does this degrade the hulls strength?? Help from anyone!!
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Delam
Catalinas are made with plywood cored hulls. Should be no problem to re-glass that area, as long as you make sure the wood is dried out thoroughly.
Catalinas are made with plywood cored hulls. Should be no problem to re-glass that area, as long as you make sure the wood is dried out thoroughly.
Plywood hull - NOT
Stu, unless this is somthing with old 22's ? Catalina cores decks and soles but not the HULLS. They are now and and far as know allways have been Solid Fiberglass. Stan "Christy Leigh" c320 #656
Stu, unless this is somthing with old 22's ? Catalina cores decks and soles but not the HULLS. They are now and and far as know allways have been Solid Fiberglass. Stan "Christy Leigh" c320 #656
Delam 2
John Stan is right, I was wrong. Sorry. Should be solid glass hull. Question is, what's underneath what you are picking up? And what is it you are lifting up?
John Stan is right, I was wrong. Sorry. Should be solid glass hull. Question is, what's underneath what you are picking up? And what is it you are lifting up?
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