New O'Day Owner

[Steve Anderson]

Santa was very good to me this year and my new boat was delivered just before Chistmas. I will have lots of questions over the next few months and I look forwaed to patricipating in this forum. The new to me boat is a 1978 O'Day 27 with 8 hp diesel. I had a survey done prior to purchase and she is said to be in very good condition with the main area of concern being some loose stantions. The recommendation from the surveyor was to remove and rebed all deck hardware. He also mentioned the port forward lower shroud chain plate was showing signs of leakage. The chain plates on this boats are a little different from other designs in tha the lower shroud plates are incapsulated in the deck. Has anyone ever repared or replace these before? How about removeing and rebeding deck hardware? How big or should I say long a job is this? As the water here in Canada is quite thick at this time of the year all we can do for now is plan for the coming months. I look forward to some armchair sailing with you while the snow flys. Steve

 

[Mike]

Congratulations

I have a 77 O'Day 27 & I love it. Wait until you see how well it sails & handles! Roomy & comfortable for a 27. As far as shrouds go, I never had a survey, but I rep[laced the starboard bulhead because leaks compromised the wood. Other than that, structuirally pretty sound.Good luck & keep me posted

 

[Geof]

Rebedding Deck Hardware

If the hardware is through bolted and you can get to the nuts on the bottom you are in luck. Sometimes you need to get under a headliner or something. I don't know your particular boat.On our O'Day 25, it's a simple task of one person on deck, one below, a phillips head screw driver on deck and a box end wrench down below. We found it easier to hold the bolt still with the screwdriver and have the person below back off the nuts.To re-bed, remove the nuts bolts and lift the stanchion up a little, clean any old bedding compound off the base of the stanchion (a straight edge razor works great, be careful not to scratch or score the metal), the nuts, washers, deck etc. You may find it easier and relatively cheap to just get new hardware, we decided to do that in a couple of cases.Next - using a compound like 3M 4200, apply it to the base of the satnchion (like using caulk) and then re-seat it and replace the bolts, tighten them up and remove any excess compound that squeezes out. Look around at other boats before you do yours to get an idea of what you want yours to look like, ask the owner what they did (if available) and do that.You will more than likely end up trying to decide what bedding compound to use, 3M makes two common ones, 4200 and 5200. Rule of thumb, the 5200 is supposed to be PERMANENT, so if you want to remove the stuff later don't use it. There are supposedly solvents for it, but why bother. There are other products available. You can read about them on the major boat suppply house websites.BTW - Check the archives on this site, there are lots of great tips and shared experiences to read.Good Luck and enjoy your new-old-boat.Geofs/v Day-O