Leakage / deck repair

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Laurens Morel

This year I bought a '79 O'day 22 of which I knew a lot of work needed to be done. What I didn't know, but I do now, was that leakage was a bigger problem than expected. Especially the cabin roof and the deck I suspect. Regarding the overall state of the boat I decided to take everything off the deck this winter and do a profound repair, also to the fiberglass were needed. One of the previous owners did all kinds of repairs, but every job has been done as bad as possible. For example, one of the genoa rails has obviously been pulled out the deck, broke and been placed back in parts on a poorly repaired deck (...) I would like to get in touch with anyone that has experience with renovating an O'day 22, especially fiber glass repairs, and can share any information with me about this issue. A few topics: - What do I do at places that can't be approached from the inside? - Can I remove, for example, the toe rails and screws, repair the holes and glue instead of screw the new ones (less vulnerable?) - Can I move the winches backwards (appr. 10 inches)? - What is the best way to renovate the rudder? I'm looking forward to any input! Thanks in advance! Laurens Morel Rotterdam, The Netherlands lmorel@wxs.nl
 
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lindsay

rigging the oday22

please if any one has relevent info on rigging the oday 22, running and standing, e-mail me at lindsayinkw@netzero.com also need sails for same
 
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John

Some Ideas

Luarens, Just back from the boatyard after a big rainstorm here which helped my pinpoint leaks. The first thing I noticed is that much of the leakage was coming from around the windows/ports. I will remove them as this is a simple job and re bed them with some marine calking. In addition I inspected the boat more carefully and found that there are removeable plugs in the cabin liner, (small round plyable inserts) that are color coordinated with the fiberglass liner that are removeable. Once removed there is access to some of the hardware fasteners in the overhead. I am sure by now you have seen the helpful response to my inquiry that was posted today. It may be that you will ultimately have to use the approach suggested. Let me make an additional suggestion to you if you have to cut throught the fiberglass liner. Go the the store where you buy your handtools and get a cutter head that can be used with an electric drill. (It looks like a round saw blade in the shape of a cookie cutter and is designed for use with your drill) buy one that will cut a hole of approximately 3 inches or its' equivalent in metrics. Get a fine cutting tooth if available. Use it to make your cuts for the access holes. You can then make teak or other cosmetic covers for the holes when you are through and the overall job should be fairly neat. I prefer that approach if the cut you will make is going to be in an exposed area and a potential "head knocker". Then go ahead and make the repair replacing the hardware as necessary. Otherwise I liked the ideas presented in the response to my question by the response to my post. I think his recommendation to ream out the area surrounding the bolt hole and flooding it with resin is especially noteworth as it should really make for a lasting repair. Regards and Good luck, John
 
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