You have got to see this repair job....

Our only regret results from setting the digital camera down next ro the compass and killing the memory card and all of our photos
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Ok thats a new one on me and I would not have thought of it myself. Still funny as hell but at lest we get to learn from others mishaps and not our own. :thup
 
mcc272":1punjxpu said:
"screwing a boat to a trailer" Hmmmmm. Perhaps Capt Matt might have a thought or so on that topic which is absolutely not to suggest that he screwed a boat to a trailer. However, as I recall from one of his early posts, he has some experience!

Jim
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Ha ha - well you may be referring to a time when I was painting a monohull years ago on the trailer. I lifted her up, one side at a time, applied the paint, diligently waited until it was dry to the touch, then set her down. When I went to splash I could not get her off the trailer. I was wondering what on earth could be holding it down.

Then I realized the boat was FLOATING the trailer! The complete trailer was floating in the sea beneath the boat. I wonder how that would have affected performance? Ha...

Turns out the bottom paint had some juice yet to cure below the top layer and the weight of the boat against the carpet bunks caused an incredible seal. I had to use jack sands while pulling down on the trailer to get it unstuck. Lesson learned - wait a LONG time after applying bottom paint before you set it down even if dry to the touch.
 
Unfortunately, I have some experience with this issue... :oops: I was mounting a set of stainless portapotty hold down brackets in the V of the V Berth area of my 23' Venture Sailboat one Sunday morning at the Ft Belvoir Marina. Was alone of course. Drilled the aft two holes and screwed it down just fine (this boat has an inner liner) but when I drilled the port forward hole, I got a little fountain of water about 18" high. Of course the boat was in the water!

Like the good little Dutch Boy, I quickly put my finger in the dike and quelled the onslaught of water. What to do? No one else around, nothing to plug the hole with, no caulk or anything. By the time I could have gotten some, the boat would have had a lot of water in it....

So, like a good engineer, I proceeded to put the screw in the hole, it was a tight fit. Drilled the other hole, more water and one more screw. It lasted all season and when I hauled the boat in the fall, saw two lilttle tips protruding from the bottom.

Removed the screws, cut them off, filled the holes with something or other, I think 3M may only have been 2 1/2 M at the time, and reinserted them. No more problems. Have not told that story very often....Wonder why? :shock: :cry

Charlie
 
Capt. Matt --

My memory must not be serving me properly. I remember a while ago that someone picked up a new boat at a dealer and found that that it had a long screw through the bottom and into a trailer bunkboard. I had thought it was your boat but I must be mistaken. That is what I was referring to. Someone else may remember the story and pipe up about it.

Jim
 
My 2006 C-Dory TomCat (Hull #16, now Captain's Cat) arrived new from the factory with a screw protruding from the bottom of the hull. :shock:

Fortunately, I noticed this before launching. Don't worry, Charlie. C-Dory paid to have it fixed properly. :)

Brock
 
mcc272":379i4qv6 said:
Capt. Matt --

My memory must not be serving me properly. I remember a while ago that someone picked up a new boat at a dealer and found that that it had a long screw through the bottom and into a trailer bunkboard. I had thought it was your boat but I must be mistaken. That is what I was referring to. Someone else may remember the story and pipe up about it.

Jim
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Jeez - now you tell me after I admitted my stupid mistake! Ha ha - seriously though it was a good lesson on the properties of bottom painting. It was the first time I had painted a vessel on a trailer as well. I was impressed the seal would securely hold the entire weight of the trailer.
 
Brock":c0kq6018 said:
My 2006 C-Dory TomCat (Hull #16, now Captain's Cat) arrived new from the factory with a screw protruding from the bottom of the hull. :shock:

Fortunately, I noticed this before launching. Don't worry, Charlie. C-Dory paid to have it fixed properly. :)

Brock
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Oh, my.... shades of the past. Glad I didn't do it. Just out of curiosity Brock, where was it?

Have you finished your new boat project yet?

Charlie
 
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