Cautionary YouTube vid……..teak deck and soggy balsa core

[Wansworth]

 

[Wansworth]

Later video show removal of balsa sandwich……..quite a few yacts have this type of construction and I must admit to fear of being unlucky buying an old boat and finding this problem

 

[Wansworth]

Deck coreo…..oh dear you will have to watch it on youtube

 

[Snowgoose-1]

He started out as a young man and will probably end the project looking as old as his dad.

 

[tillergirl]

Been there, done it. Except with a 'proper' teak deck (i.e. a teak deck on a wooden boat - 1" teak). I went through the same process of thinking through how to left the deck and save the teak. I found it impossible to practically remove the fasteners - the problem with the deck was the fasteners - steel slotted screws - no, not galvanised. You can hear the builder telling the original owner that the deck would outlive him and it did but..... I eastimated, given that I had a day job, it would take me three and a half years to lift the deck. And I found it was unlikely that the teak could have much reusable. So I junk the teak, replaced a few half beams, part of the starboard beam shelf so nothing like the problem that the chap has with the soggy balsa core.

I decided that a good high quality marine ply and glass was the answer for the replacement. It brought a new life to Tiller Girl.

Good video. Good luck to the chappie.

 

[Wansworth]

Been there, done it. Except with a 'proper' teak deck (i.e. a teak deck on a wooden boat - 1" teak). I went through the same process of thinking through how to left the deck and save the teak. I found it impossible to practically remove the fasteners - the problem with the deck was the fasteners - steel slotted screws - no, not galvanised. You can hear the builder telling the original owner that the deck would outlive him and it did but..... I eastimated, given that I had a day job, it would take me three and a half years to lift the deck. And I found it was unlikely that the teak could have much reusable. So I junk the teak, replaced a few half beams, part of the starboard beam shelf so nothing like the problem that the chap has with the soggy balsa core.

I decided that a good high quality marine ply and glass was the answer for the replacement. It brought a new life to Tiller Girl.

Good video. Good luck to the chappie.

And much more ridged deck

 

[Steve_N]

I love that semi-trailer used to transport the boat in episode E001: able to pick up and put down a 45' keelboat on its own with no need for travel hoist or crane. Superb bit of kit.

 

[Daydream believer]

I must admit to fear of being unlucky buying an old boat and finding this problem

I think that first you have to overcome your greatest fear
Actually buying a boat - any boat- in the first place

 

[shanemax]

I don't know what is worse. Watching your wife give birth of watching your boat being lifted into the water by crane.

 

[Wansworth]

I don't know what is worse. Watching your wife give birth of watching your boat being lifted into the water by crane.

Check the sea cocos ten times