Project Log: Monday, January 17, 2011
The final sections of caprail required the usual round
of repairs to address old, unused fastener holes, small
cracks, and, in several areas, more significant cracks
and damage. The two aftermost sections were the
worst, particularly in way of the two U-bolt locations
one each side, and the difficult removal of this
hardware hadn't done the wood any favors either.
The port forward caprail section had a split at each end
where the wood had simply broken away at some point long
before I bought the boat. I left these two repairs for
later, and concentrated on the hole-filling and crack
repair for the moment.
I prepared each board as needed by drilling holes
for new bungs, cleaning out the opened cracks, and so
forth, and then installed bungs and glued various seams
and cracks together with teak-colored and
slightly-thickened epoxy resin, as I'd done with various
trim pieces over the past few weeks, and set them aside
to cure overnight or longer. In several cases, I
had to bung old holes on both sides of the boards, since
hardware had been installed in the sections where the
caprail overhung the large freeing ports. |
