J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum The Boat, Sails and Equipment Too Many Holes

Here is a beauty shot of the topside of this plate. I suspect that someone had it made to deal with the compromised cabin top. I think it is a good thing to have even with a solid and sound core.

I will have to inspect the primary winches before we put this beast back in the water. I had been thinking this stuff was fine for the time being.

It isn't raining right now so I am going to go up and cut this skin away and then cover it up. Hopefully the core next to the portlights (below this area) hasn't gotten wet too and this is just a localized problem, but so far that just hasn't been the case on this boat. If that has gotten wet it may just have to stay that way.

As a side note what I have seen so far with all of my core work is that on some areas that were under my temporary cradle until last fall when I removed it, the core has dried out. My guess is that the moisture just moved to the areas around that had been fully dried out. Then in one area that had been fully dried out, but was next to the wet core about 5 to 7 inches away from where the cradle was the moisture level has gone back up. So I tried to use the high vacuum and heat again to improve that with some limited success. I am not going back into the repaired areas so I am hoping that as this last area of core is dried and/or replaced where the cradle was that the moisture level equalizes out. The weather is slowly improving here so I can get after this glass work again.