mad4pike
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i have a 11ft dell quay dory i suspect water has been soaked into the foam beteen the two skins ,is there anyway i can remove or fix this problem help. <span style="color:red"> </span>
dell quay dory
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Thistle
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Welcome to the forums!
Are you sure it's foam in there? It may be mainly an air space. If water gets into such a space it can slosh around and make the boat unstable. This is what happened - essentially - to the Herald of Free Enterprise and a similar thing has happened (with loss of life) to dories. See the MAIB Safety Bulletin.
Do consider taking the boat out of use until you can get to the bottom of this.
Are you sure it's foam in there? It may be mainly an air space. If water gets into such a space it can slosh around and make the boat unstable. This is what happened - essentially - to the Herald of Free Enterprise and a similar thing has happened (with loss of life) to dories. See the MAIB Safety Bulletin.
Do consider taking the boat out of use until you can get to the bottom of this.
duncan
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basicaly it's a case of cutting, removing, replacing and reglassing if you have either soaked foam or soaked rotten wood.
what you have can I believe vary with the construction at the time. They go back a fair time!
what you have can I believe vary with the construction at the time. They go back a fair time!
DRW
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Hi, probably not much help but... mine is a Orkney Dory - 13 ft odd - which I call a Dell Quay Dory so every one knows what I am talking about because it is pretty much exactly the same as the Dell Quay version.
Don't worry about the free water effect and so on, these things are made with closed cell polyurethane foam in the void. You can't get a load os water sloshing around inbetween the hull and interior.
Mine is designed so that the whole of the sole can be removed to get at what is between the hull and deck, in one great big piece. I've never had it out, but it would just screw back down with new sealent if I ever did have to take it out.
By the engine there is a well for water to collect, and at the forward end of this is a bung hole, this needs to be kept bunged normally so that spray coming into the boat and making its way into the well does not then run under the sole.
When the boat is out of the water and the transom drain is removed, then I take the bung out of this other bung hole and let any water drain out of the foamed space between the hull and deck.
As they are made with closed cell polyurethane, the foam should not soak up water, but if it has been allowed to get water logged for some time, it will take quite a while to drain out again, quite a while. Try making sure the bungs are out and that it is free to drain when it is out of the water.
Don't worry about the free water effect and so on, these things are made with closed cell polyurethane foam in the void. You can't get a load os water sloshing around inbetween the hull and interior.
Mine is designed so that the whole of the sole can be removed to get at what is between the hull and deck, in one great big piece. I've never had it out, but it would just screw back down with new sealent if I ever did have to take it out.
By the engine there is a well for water to collect, and at the forward end of this is a bung hole, this needs to be kept bunged normally so that spray coming into the boat and making its way into the well does not then run under the sole.
When the boat is out of the water and the transom drain is removed, then I take the bung out of this other bung hole and let any water drain out of the foamed space between the hull and deck.
As they are made with closed cell polyurethane, the foam should not soak up water, but if it has been allowed to get water logged for some time, it will take quite a while to drain out again, quite a while. Try making sure the bungs are out and that it is free to drain when it is out of the water.
ccscott49
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Happened to one I had, just tpook our both drain plugs, allowed it to drain, for two months over the winter, found the leak, repaired it, put the bung back in, bingo.