Removed davits - left with large holes!

[ChattingLil]

Any tips on how to approach filling fairly large holes in the cockpit would be gratefully received. The holes left behind after the davits were removed are c. 3 inches diameter.

thanks

 

[neil_s]

I don't like messing around with GRP, so I would suggest cutting out a 5 inch diameter circle of 10mm plywood and screwing it down over the hole. You could paint the circle to match your cockpit. You might be able to re-use the same fastenings and holes which secured your davits. You can justify this simple approach by saying to yourself 'I might want to put the davits back somtime'!

Neil

 

[Twister_Ken]

Make up wooden blanking pieces to cover them. Reinforce below, put a backing piece in, then screw and sikaflex a nicely prepared piece of teak - circular, radiused edge - into place. Sink the screws below the surface and make good the holes with teak plugs.

I'm sure there also other ways of skinning this cat, and the GRP people will have their own gloopy methods.

 

[alandee]

Contact someone who fits bowthrusters and ask if you can have the two round or oval cut-outs. Stick over the holes using sikaflex or similar. This should match the rest of the boat. PM me if you need some contacts.

 

[Cliveshep]

It'll be very hard to match old gel coat colour with a GRP repair, any wood or ply will look sh$t on a GRP deck. Why not get a couple of discs in polished stainless steel, say 2.5-3mm thick, with c/sunk holes all around and just screw down over sikaflax? My friend Darren will do them for you at a fraction of the cost of anything else and post them to you. He owns a precision sheet metal business, anything in ferrous or non ferrous, polished, brushed, you name it, brass ali or stainless or powder coated. He also does plasma cutting and did my boat name in polished stainless. He's a real treasure to find for a boat owner, he made my pulpit, stanchions, davits, cleats - all in polished stainless when I refurbed my old ex-hire boat, and a polished brass fire surround for SWMBO (extravagent c%w!) Best thing is, he is not expensive and I did get prices 4 times more than his. E-mail Darren Marsh at KPS Ltd at: darrenm@kpssheetmetal.co.uk with a rough sketch giving dimensions and I'm sure he'll help.

 

[ChattingLil]

thanks Clivehep - that's kind of what I thought we'd end up but didn't know where to begin with sourcing the metal disks. I'll contact your friend.
Regards
Lisa

 

[CET1]

We had to fill the holes under our compasses when we moved our instruments to the new mounting on the bridge deck. Used East coast glassfibre supplies for the gear and they have usefull info on their web site regarding filling the holes.

http://www.ecfibreglasssupplies.co.uk/st...f627c219033a748

Took some time getting a match and confidence in sanding the gel to a smooth finish. Atattched some photos to show our results.

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Hope this helps

 

[Cerddinen]

It may seem a crazy solution but my davits mount into 3" (approx.) stainless steel sockets that are located in the deck. If you fitted two of these they would fill the holes very neatly. There is a picture of the davits in one of the chandlery adverts in YM. Perhaps yours were mounted this way, too, in which case ignore this post.

 

[ChattingLil]

unfortunately, we gave the davits away and the mounts went with them! Hence the holes! I haven't seen that you can buy the mounts separately... unless anyone has seen otherwise..?