Coastal rowing boat

Over the last few weeks I have made repairs to a plywood coastal rowing boat. It is well used and the bow and rudder were damaged, a wooden outrigger was broken and the bilge pump had ripped its mounting block from the bulkhead. Further work is needed to epoxy/glass tape along the full length internally.

 

The bow damage was caused by rubbing against the trailer and being beached. Both ends of the boat had splits between the hull and deck allowing the bouyancy chambers to fill up with water. The old glass tape was sanded off and replaced with a couple of layers of epoxy/glass. This was sanded smooth and epoxy primed ready for the club to repaint the whole boat at a later stage. A similar process was used for the other repairs.


The cracked outrigger had been held on with a strip of aluminum screwed into 4mm ply. This was removed and the broken grp ground off. The crack was dried and filled with thickened epoxy. This and the surrounding area was relaminated, stepped down to one layer at the edge. All this was sanded smooth and epoxy filled and faired, then primed.

The finished repair