If that entire joint is not weeping rust you likely have no issue with the keel ballast. That joint was just filled with thickened resin. Not hard to grind it out with a dremel to get a rough surface and then lay and some fiberglass, then thickened resin, and then cover over with some fiberglass. Sand smooth. Paint over with your coat. For the fiberglass work late in some mat, and then cloth, not just cloth as will pop off. Somewhere I think I have pictures of this repair being done. I'll look for photos when I get back to Golden. :: Dave Scobie On Jan 30, 2016 2:33 PM, "David Rifkind" <drifkind@acm.org> wrote:
On Jan 30, 2016, at 10:45 AM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
David could you post a link to a picture of the disease? I'm scared and don't even know what it is yet! Are we talking the trunk base in the cabin where it joins the floor?
That was a good idea, since I can see more in the photo than crowded under the trailer.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpcsj0x3ddrwv3r/P1300005-2.jpg?dl=0
This is looking about 45 degrees up directly across the bottom of the stub keel. The white surface at the bottom is the bottom of the keel. The rusty stripe at top is the bottom of the rusty centerboard. In the right half below the centerboard is the edge of the trunk. It looks like it has just popped loose from the keel, 1/4” to 3/8” all around.
I have a queasy idea that the white tubes are some sort of worm or insect tubes.
(By the way, the boat’s an ’85 not ’84 as I said.)