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    Posted: 06 Aug 09 at 9:57pm
You need to look over the whole boat really carefully.  Sometimes what looks ok is actually rotten, often hidden under layers of paint.  You also need to work out what you'd have to spend on parts etc.  There are lots of cheap Ents on ebay.  Sometimes it's just cheaper and easier to get one of those.

I am the voice of one who has had her fingers burnt doing up what appeared to be 'otherwise sound' (usually by my own heat gun )


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the same, but different...

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Two holes and water damage - so probably rot... That doesn't sound like a great candidate to me... Its probably a week or so's work, unless there is rot, in which case the sky is the limit. I'd look for an alternative I think.
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No worries. It was not for my use. I was planning on restoring it for use as a club boat. Thanks for saving me wasting my time.
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i have got access to a thicknesser, that should make it a lot easier, someone borrowed the boat yesterday and it sank on the way in...  so it looks like it needs new decks sooner rather then later and i will remove the shoddy fibreglassing the orevious owner did in the cockpit.

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too many boats too little time.....

 


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Originally posted by hollandsd

someone borrowed the boat yesterday and it sank on the way in...

Oh dear, that doesn't sound like good news... I wonder if you have leaks anywhere else... At least when you have the decks off is the perfect time to deal with bouyancy tank leaks becuse you can get at both sides of the failed join and make much better repairs.
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Originally posted by hollandsd

i have got access to a thicknesser, that should make it a lot easier, someone borrowed the boat yesterday and it sank on the way in...  so it looks like it needs new decks sooner rather then later and i will remove the shoddy fibreglassing the orevious owner did in the cockpit.

I think i now need the same signature as wings

too many boats too little time.....

 


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The problem with Older wooden phantoms is they are built very light, my boat was 921 and had been looked after all of its life but the plywood was falling to bits (probably cheap ply)  if there is a fibre glass repair in the cocpit i would check for rot. 

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Yes.  In my dinghy source book it lists the weight of the phantom as 54kg, which is stupidly light for those days.
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well, i will replace the deck and strip all the old paint off and try to lose some weight from it.

Got to finish the moth first.


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Posts: 6660 		Post Options Post Options   Quote JimC Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Aug 09 at 10:13am
FWIW I find myself having to redeck my vintage Cherub, so I shall document that up as an on line reference in redecking which I can point people at. It won't help you though as the target completion date is next spring: it will be done very much "when I feel like it"!
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