Pics of bulkhead repair 9.2c

[Calypso]

Here's a few pics of my 9.2c port main bulkhead repair. I repaired it with git rot this spring but wanted to cut out all the bad stuff. First pic is during the recoring of the deck from below. I had cut it open, removed the bad core and let it dry well for about two weeks. Then I replaced the small area of bad wet core in the deck, replaced the cut out sections from below and braced them in place until the epoxy cured. I also put two layers of woven roving all over the new and old wood and the hull. You can see in the pics I made the repair out of 3 pieces of 1/2 ply, the middle piece extending down 3" into the original bulkhead. The top of the bulkhead has been epoxied to the underneath of the deck. Lots of epoxy and silica for thickening were used. All edges have been sealed with epoxy. I epoxied around the chainplate hole so any water coming in will not do damage again. I replaced the carpet and it's invisible. It's nice to be able to wack the repair with a ball peen hammer and have it bounce off!

 

[BobM]

Looking good. I can't wait to see some more photos. Now you have me wondering whether the previous owner who fixed my boat should have done something to the deck ABOVE the bulkhead area he fixed. However, the moisture meter didn't turn up a lot of moisture.

So what, if any, impact did the Git Rot have from what you could tell from disassembly?

I just bought 100 feet of that butyl tape that Mainesail has used for bedding with good success. Given the easy access to the back of everything, I plan a massive rebedding party next summer. I don't think I will go too crazy trying to fix every slightly wet spot on the deck, but we'll see. It will likely work out to be much cheaper than using 4200 or lifeseal and I won't have to worry about an expensive tube of caulk drying out. I bought two rolls of 50 ft each because 50 ft didn't seem like enough to do the whole boat. Now I think I might have gone overboard!

The one area I think I definitely will have to fix is under the mast. Some dummy drilled a whole for the mast wiring with no bulkhead fitting and there is crazing and the appearance of some compression. I resealed the hole for now, but what an idiot. It wouldn't have taken much effort to do that correctly and now I will have to drop the mast to fix it.

 

[Calypso]

I keep my caulk in the fridge after it's opened. It lasts almost indefinitely.
Git rot- I missed the very top part of the bulkhead from the first bolt up to the underside of the deck. It was so rotten that when I injected the git rot and then tightened up the 5 chainplate bolts, the bulkhead compressed and became thinner at the top with the full thickness remaining at the bottom! I have the chunk I removed and even though it's squeezed thinner it seems solid. It just bothered me knowing how bad it was. I feel better with it gone. I must have used $60 worth of git rot!

 

[BobM]

I bought Git Rot, or a similar product, to repair a badly damaged beam end projecting outside of the house (the house is contemporary, but the center is post and beam). It turned out to be so rotten I had to do major surgery instead. It took me a whole week of vacation. Lucky for me (go figure) that two symmetrical valleys had been done differently and I was able to reconfigure the badly damaged one to match the other by trimming the rotted beam. I didn't do a great job though. It was a mess. The roof over the beam must have leaked for twenty years to do that much damage.