Hi all. We are relatively new to National 12s and have
just started our first winter maintenance session. It's mostly just
routine maintenance, but we do have one small repair to make and would like
some advise as to the best solution. The boat is 3419, a wooden feeling
foolish design. The wooden strip that the toe strap fixing was screwed to
has started to pull away from the false floor, along with a layer of wood that
seems to be delaminating. There has clearly been a repair to the area
before. Any advise would be much appreciated.
Tim. I am not an expert but my suggestion would be that you carefully remove the hardwood strip, remove any loose bits of ply from the floor and then using epoxy glue a thin piece of ply over the original repair,
Make the new piece of ply substantially larger than the previous one so that it provides plenty of 'grab'. Try 3 mm ply? If you then reglue the hardwood strip onto the plywood repair that should do the trick. Not pretty but functional.
Hopefully one of our wooden boat gurus will be along shortly to offer their advice.
Hi Tim. If you want to give me a call would be happy to chat over your problem 01983 529901.
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