Sailboat Refit 34- New main Bulkhead and Compression Post Block. In this video I remove the rotten compression post block and install steel screw jack, then I build and install a new main bulkhead.
What an incredible job you have undertaken and completed. Great soluitons to two very difficult problems. Thanks for taking the time to make the video's and share the knowledge
Way to go solving those issues. Admire the outside the box thinking that led to the jackpost solution. What made you decide on 8 coats of paint for the bulkhead panel? I'm in the process of an Alexseal paint job as well, and not having much luck achieving a smooth finish. The primer dries so hard it's almost impossible to sand out the rolling stipple . Great video series, that's going to be a great boat!
Yeah well the best way to get a smooth finish with Alexseal is to mix it really thin, and use the roll additive if your rolling. With it so thin I had to put 8 coats to get good coverage over that brown fairing. The primer is just a pain. But any good paint job will require a bunch of sanding. With Alexseal you can always wet sand it smooth, I know it’s hard work but gives you a really nice finish.
Is that jack going to live in there permanently now? In my country there is a company that melts recycled plastic and turns it into "planks" that they make park benches with and I think those would work well to replace wood that could rot, cause the bench at the skate park where I grew up has been sitting out in the sun and rain for the past 30 years and has been abused by skaters and its still perfect and I think if you made the mast step with something like that it would be able to take the weight and stress and its never going to rot.
Yeah, I really wanted to use something like that instead but I had to have something that I could put in the hole and the jack up. I couldn’t get the right height block in there otherwise. This jack when sealed with last forever though.
No encased the entire jack in Apoxsee concrete structural Apoxsee, no air or moisture anything you can ever get to the Jack and I don’t flip boats. Every boat I’ve worked on was my own boat for my own personal use.
@@finditfixitsailit9322 Yes, I am looking for something similar in a 30-foot boat, mainly for the sugar scoop. I am trying to figure out what fair market value would be for a boat like that in that condition.
Yes, so I was able to buy this boat for $12,000 but it needed a lot of work as you may have saw. I’ve never Brought any of the boats that I’ve had with the purposed of selling. But I did sell this one after the repairs for $30,000.
