Dragged moorings

[graeme.toms]

Good evening,
On the 22 Nov my moorings dragged and my vessal collided with a steel boat causing massive damage to my port side.
Can any one help me with advice on repair to a ferro cement boat, I am doing the work myself to keep costs low.
I have spent 4 years brining this boat back to life and dont want to give up on her now.
Many thanks for your time. Graeme

 

[VicS]

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[PetiteFleur]

Good evening,
On the 22 Nov my moorings dragged and my vessal collided with a steel boat causing massive damage to my port side.
Can any one help me with advice on repair to a ferro cement boat, I am doing the work myself to keep costs low.
I have spent 4 years brining this boat back to life and dont want to give up on her now.
Many thanks for your time. Graeme

As I understand it a good plasterer should be able to help you out. Many years ago I remember watching a gang of plasterers plastering a 45' boat - very impressive and I saw it a few days later and it looked excellent. I believe the plastering was completed in the one day. I'm sure there was a good book about ferro cement boats some years back, I remember glancing through it and was tempted but didn't have any money at the time!
Just found this which may be useful:- http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/v9468e/v9468e0a.htm

Good Luck!

 

[Jcorstorphine]

Google is your friend

Good evening,
On the 22 Nov my moorings dragged and my vessal collided with a steel boat causing massive damage to my port side.
Can any one help me with advice on repair to a ferro cement boat, I am doing the work myself to keep costs low.
I have spent 4 years brining this boat back to life and dont want to give up on her now.
Many thanks for your time. Graeme

Sorry to hear of your problems, have you carried out a web search, here are a few which i have come up with

http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/v9468e/v9468e0a.htm

http://www.ferroboats.com/

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149380

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5640841_repair-ferro-cement-hull.html

I have not read through all of the links by any means but I seem to recall that the repair method is to get a heavy hammer and knock out all the loose ferro until you get to a solid area. Then hammer back in the steel reinforcing and chicken wire.

You then need to read up on the best mix in terms of using or not using epoxy type mortar. Once you have done all the prep work, it may be worthwhile getting a plasterer used to working on this type of repair as it is important to get a good bond.

You may also need to remove internal wood work so that you can get to the inside of the hull so that you can extend the new cement onto the undamaged parts of the hull.

Very best of luck but take heart that all of the literature on ferro boats claim that it is one of the easiest hulls to repair. I have seen it stated that any ferro boat owner doing a round the world adventure should take sufficient cement and chicken wire to carry our repairs in the event of being holed by grounding on some coral reef.

 

[Pleiades]

Ferro repairs

Hi Graem, sorry to hear you have been biffed. The standard reference work for Ferro is "Ferro Cement Boats" by Colin Brookes. You may also find the Ferro Forum of interest if you are not already aware of it. http://www.ferrocement.org/forum
Hope you can get her shipshape soon.
Robin
Pleiades of Birdham
MXWQ5

 

[LadyInBed]

Who owns the mooring?
If it's not you, you may have a claim against the owner.
If it is you, then it isn't up to the job and you need to get it beefed up!
Pointless putting a repaired boat back onto it for it to happen again