Repair to Sadler 26 cockpit sole

morgandlm

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I have recently bought a Sadler 26 with a delaminated (flexing) cockpit sole. The pre-purchase survey identified this and the surveyor recommended fixing stiffening strips of teak using epoxy and self tapping screws.

Most grateful for any advice on this solution or any alternative suggestions that could solve the problem. I have been advised to avoid injecting epoxy into the laminate as this is not guaranteed to succeed.
In the meantime the boat sails well and I simply try to avoid standing on the weakened section.

Morgan
 

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Could you not fit a teak floor, either a full blown grating or home-made duck boards, to spread the load? That would get you through the season without any major surgery.
 

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I have recently bought a Sadler 26 with a delaminated (flexing) cockpit sole. The pre-purchase survey identified this and the surveyor recommended fixing stiffening strips of teak using epoxy and self tapping screws.

Most grateful for any advice on this solution or any alternative suggestions that could solve the problem. I have been advised to avoid injecting epoxy into the laminate as this is not guaranteed to succeed.
In the meantime the boat sails well and I simply try to avoid standing on the weakened section.

Morgan

[/ QUOTE ]Don't know about the "not guaranteed to succeed" bit, I have recently had the decks on my Sadler epoxy injected due to de-lamination of the core and the job seems to have been very successful.
One problem is the core must be dry and I mean very dry, if it is them it is a straight forward job to carry out the epoxy injection although it is better to use a vacuum system to suck the epoxy through from hole to hole.
Simply explained, drill a honeycomb of holes 8mm~10mm ø through the outer skin on about 6"~8" centres. DO NOT drill through the inner skin.
Then with a blunt tool poke the hole through to the inner skin and remove the foam dust / fragments.
Start at one end and with a syringe slowly push the epoxy into one of the holes while you have a vacuum cleaner sucking at an adjacent hole. Once the epoxy comes out the adjacent hole move the vacuum to another adjacent hole and repeat. Once all adjacent holes have resin at them move up to the next row of holes and pump resin into the last holes vacuumed and so on if you see what I mean. This gets the resin both above and below the core and where possible through the core (Sadler used a core on the deck that had a grid of holes running along the centre line of the core and it is here that the problem probably lies rather than core to laminate debonding.
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