Repair & maintenance: laser mast step repair

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Topic: laser mast step repair

Posted By: mikeonsea
Subject: laser mast step repair
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:37am

Hi does anybody know where I can get my Laser mast step repaired ( Its leaking )
There is a place in Oxford but was looking for some where a little closer to home in the Norfolk east coast area.
Thanks.

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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 6:28pm

Any reasonable boat yard should be able to help you out. If it is only leaking at the bottom where the mast foot may have ground through it then you can do it yourself by making sure the boat is dead level and pouring some expoxy down it (I have seen this doen several times to older boats with good success but I dont know how much epoxy they used).

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Paul
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D-Zero GBR 74

Posted By: mikeonsea
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 7:15pm

Thanks for the advice, But I dont think it is leaking from the very bottom because when you pour water in it does not all leak away, think there maybe around 10mm always left at the bottom, I am quite new to boat repairs, I talked to someone from branfibre in Oxford the chap I spoke to used to repair lasers and sounded very knowledgeable about laser repairs but it is just to far to take the boat over to Oxford.
I didnt want a botched job doing, ( I could do that myself lol) so I was looking for a recommendation from some one who had had a good repair in the past.
Cheers

Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 14 Jun 08 at 2:11pm

DO NOT use epoxy to fix a Laser. It is made with polyester resin and epoxy will not adhere to the surface very well. You should use polyester resin to fix polyester boats and epoxy to fix epoxy boats don't mix!

Fixing the mast step/tube is straight forward if its not gone too far but you will have to put a hatch in the deck if the tube is cracked part way up.

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Garry

Lark 2252, Contender 298

www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk