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From: Rusty Knorr

To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats

Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:02 PM

Subject: Re: M_Boats: New 1981 Mongomery-15 owner has some questions for theexperts...

Sounds great, Connie. I think I will remove the
forward most bit of teak and make room for mounting
the chocks in line with where the teak railing was,
like on the new M-15s. Bob Eeg sent me a great pic
which shows the chocks clearly on a new boat. How hard
is it to add epoxy and re-drill? I have heard about
that before but I am intimidated by the prospect of
removing more material than is needed. Sealing
underneath the chock won't do it, huh? Sounds like a
big job for a newbie...

                                 -Rusty


--- chbenneck@juno.com wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> My teak toe rail is about 1 1/4" high.
>
> It was cut it to about 3/8" high when I installed my
> chocks, but it
> wasn't wide enough to mount the chocks.
>
> To form a base that matched the base of the chocks I
> added some teak
> pieces - bedded to the rail  and the deck.
>
> Then I drilled the mounting holes for the chocks
> oversize; filled them
> with thickened epoxy; and re drilled them to the
> correct size.
>
> The reason for doing this is to seal the balsa
> sandwich deck structure
> and to preclude any water getting into the balsa
> core via the bolts
> holding the chocks.
>
> Connie
>
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