On Saturday, the 12th, only three volunteers mustered on deck, but it was enough to take on the one salient project needing to be done, soon...which was the repair of our Small Boat. The prior week, Bos'un Bryan had purchased the correct rubber patching cement kit, along with squares of rubber patch material. While Bryan Oliver disappeared below to start prepping for his part in educating 35 Charleston Collegiate Students next week,
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| Toy shows off his plan for clamping and pressure-plating the patch ( out of site below the corner) |
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| Walter applies a second clamp over the two opposing wood pressure plates covering the patch. |
The project entailed an intricate sequence of scraping, sanding, roughing both surfaces; followed by an even covering of adhesive allowed to become tacky, thus starting the placement of the patch, even pressuring it all over the subject leak area. This latter step was awkward, given that the seep was in the apex of a rounded end of the boat's pontoon. Some Ingenius use of c-clamps, and soft (rotte) plywood that curved to the shape, enabled the even pressurization all over the patch. With that done, all left was for the patch area to cure for seven days before removing.
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