I recently had my boat hauled out for minor repairs from Hurricane Arthur in July. Fortunately I took the boat to a yard that had a mobile sling lift. The yard manager noticed a little while later that bilge water was seeping out through the keel, and then he pushed on the bottom side of the keel with his foot and the keel easily moved to and fro. Had the boat been slinged onto my trailer we never would have noticed this looming disaster.
What we are trying to figure out now is how was the internal cradle designed.
Was it like a rib cage attached to a spine or was it like a rib cage only? We need to determine whether or not the cradle has broken away from the hull. What the boatyard is telling me is that if there is no spine it will be an easy fix. But if it has a spine that the keel bolts travel through then I am looking at a very being repair job.
Does anyone out there have personal knowledge or even better an architectual drawing of whats between the hull and the sealed structure under the floor boards?
What we are trying to figure out now is how was the internal cradle designed.
Was it like a rib cage attached to a spine or was it like a rib cage only? We need to determine whether or not the cradle has broken away from the hull. What the boatyard is telling me is that if there is no spine it will be an easy fix. But if it has a spine that the keel bolts travel through then I am looking at a very being repair job.
Does anyone out there have personal knowledge or even better an architectual drawing of whats between the hull and the sealed structure under the floor boards?
