Resurrecting The Blue Pearl
- Thread starter Brucker
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The bulkheads separate the salon from the forepeak and the salon from the cockpit. It is the forward bulkhead that often has the shroud chainplates anchored in it. However, if the bulkhead has been rotted or softened with water, your shroud chainplates could pull right out, resulting in the loss of the mast.
Follow your shrouds from the mast to the deck. Then see where they come through the deck into the cabin. Check all those connections to make sure they are solid.
Some shrouds connect to chainplates that attach through the deck to side of the hull or straight to the gunwale and the hull, bypassing a through-deck fitting. Any fitting that goes through the deck needs to be properly sealed, or leaking into the deck core or bulkheads will cause rotting. Shrouds that do not penetrate the deck, that connect straight to the gunwale and side of the hull, are less prone to leaking.
This is what Bill is speaking of.
From what I can see, your boat has chainplates that go through the deck. See where they lead, and make sure the wood to which they might connect is solid.
All of this is being gone over as well. I am just trying to do things in my skill level right now. The boat had way more money put into it than it was worth five years ago. Pops completely redid it then took it out to the water and said he almost died trying to get the mast up so he brought it home and parked it. He has had many sailboats in the past and is going to go over all of that with me. But little handy man things are the types that I can be doing right now. Regardless any and all input on things that need to be gone over is welcome.
GGordan: Yeah that house top gets removed tomorrow before a deep cleaning. lol. Pops has a bad back so he wanted to have the cabin head height there. Man it is ugly!
I will try and have a good look at that tomorrow if I can figure out what all that means lol.
