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What the hey? Not sure I would assume that splitting lines like that was possible from the water pressure developed by recreational marine water pumps... serious... Is that like soda-straw thick tubing? Don't get that? Plus - the installer of that tubing was missing out on the cool-factor...

Concur... hence after I deduced that no-tape-and-tooling was spreading a lot of caulk across beautiful and valuable wood - to heck with that - switched to the standing seam method... Will razor the excess caulk off the standing seam and then hit it with the 120-grit sanding (planned to do the...

Thanks again XS... Sad, sad, sad... Such wonderful, useful, affordable, and good looking vessels have a time-bomb built into them. Thankfully the problem is not fatal... imagine how much marketplace money would have been lost over the years if these soft deck problems were terminal...

Bummer - but I read a post from several years ago from Boatsmith - and there was something in there that noted that uneven teak surfaces harbor dirt and dust - and I thought that made sense - and as I am anti-dirt in the wrong place - like my teak decking - out came the sander. At the rate of...

Yep... after smearing that first side I decided to back off and not put so much on the rest of the board. Removing tape is fine as addressed in the next post about removing wood... Carl

Thanks a bunch - I like it tan like this and when it is that silver/gray too... as soon as its sealed I'm pouring gallons of sea water on it to start the transition. Carl

Ha! yes, the balls at Whites can rented... funny, my last overnight on the mooring at thst location was perhaps five years ago... I motored into the mooring field with my mainsail still up. The attendent chewed me out for sailing though the moorings as he collected the money.

Take the good with the bad. Catalina Island Company does a stellar job deploying and maintaining the moors but in the process has covered all of the previously anchorable area. The Latitude 38 catamaran anchors to the seamount about a half mile off isthmus... bet that is 90 feet down too.

Alrighty, Where is the Advil? Need it for all the work dealing with these decks... lots of labor grinding and caulking. Sanded the side decks which are under the shade of the europa overhangs... wood seemed "harder"... sander labored to cut the worn wood. Started the recaulk on the foredeck...

I can give your post a bump but not much advice... i've been on the mooring ball at Whites and i have known of yacht club members that anchor on the south side of two harbors... i believe they told me it was 90-feet deep! Also possible to anchor just to the north of Emerald Bay but I have not...

And went up front to start on deck-triage... Decided to sand ahead of removing obviously bad caulking... There were two types of caulk in the seems leading me to believe the deck had been serviced in the past - plus - when I pulled the "silicone" product that had failed - there was the little...

On it... went after the water tank deck fills, deck drain, and the base of the ladder this weekend... The ply core around the water tank deck fill was fully rotted - went back in with a bit of JB Waterweld putty around the hole just to close the gap. Not pretty in there. Still, on the road to...

Congratulations. Looking forward to interior pics. Funny about joining plastic tubing to copper... I just did the same thing on the plastic water tank replacement. Carl

Yes... would always be concerned about tanks shifting... but the strap seemed like the most efficient solution. The latex glue is not nautical but it is good for 200-psi shear - plenty for a 10-square inch baseplate against 350-lbs... especially with a through-bolt anchor at the top of the...

BTW - there is another place where water is leaking from that rudder-stock-block... this on the starboard side... don't like any leak.

Hi all... During the water tank replacement and laz repaint I discovered that there is a hull leak back at the rudder stock... Now the leak is relatively small with the quantity of water seen in the picture collecting over the course of two weeks... But what bothers me is the leaking water is...

Spray foam was strongly considered... chose the plywood base - I wont likely own the boat ten years from now to verify whether ply is better than foam.

pretty close to the end-game for the water tank replacement... Ronco plastic tanks are in... Supported on 3/4 marine ply... Secured with aluminum straps inboard and resting against the stock backing-blocks outboard. Will be changing a bolt or two to get the right length and a bit of touch-up...

Nordhavn 62... As long as i dont have to work 5 more years to buy one. the older ones are under $500k by now arnt they? I also look out the side-eye at sailboats too... a well made 45-ish footer cruising cat set up for singlehanding would be dreamy.

Mila... Assuming the window are wood framed... Years ago I used regular window putty when replacing the safety glass in the two front windows on the little lifeboat conversion... plan on doing the same replacement on Satori too - in the not too distant future... Pending other advice I intend...

Appreciate the note... Diesel heater... guessed it was for a generator. Still undecided about closing off the thru hulls.. Perhaps having the inside capped and brazed or glued tight.

You got that right. Aluminum tsnks have been retired and plastic tanks are 70% in.

Thanks for asking. Satori is my sixth boat. The first was a 15-foot tri hull with a beautiful hundred horse Evenrude Starfire. Glastron 19-foot came next, then the little lifeboat conversion, then the Cal 25, the Newport 30, and now the 34-foot Fu Hwa. Loved all of them. No work in...

Yup... stopping water ingress will buy time to assess. The clue as to how much water is moving through the decks is the tea-colored stain... tea colored stains are numerous. So stopping ingress is a must. Then decide if the only long term solution is to go nuclear with full remove and cap...

Phil... Triage repairs must happen right away... i'm not even comfortable washing the boat till the water ingress can be halted. Your approach seems reasonable... stabilize and maintain.