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View of starboard
window. |
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Starboard view
with detail of water
catchment . |
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Mast step and sanded foredeck.
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Rear ventilation baffles.
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Top view of Little
Cruiser . Note the four
water ballast
tanks.
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View of port bow,
and the damage caused by sea ice
when Matt froze in for the winter in Cape Cod!
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Centerboard and rudder blade
with edges covered in kevlar. |
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.: Microcruiser Refit |
2005
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There
was considerable rot damage to Swamp Thing .
We first
began our repairs by digging out and grinding away all the troublesome
areas. Then these spots were saturated with unthickened epoxy resin. Next, new
wood and fiberglass cloth were used to rebuild the affected
parts.
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Rot in area of upper gungeon.
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Rot to stern and rear deck.
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Rot in stem.
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Finished repair to deck after MANY layers of glass.
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Completed repair to stern.
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Toe rail replaced and more repair to deck on starboard side.
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View of boat from the
bow. Note repair to coaming, which was delaminated,
and stem. The coaming will receive several layers of glass cloth to replace the
missing layer of plywood veneer.
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