Foam blocks in weird areas

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Re: Foam blocks in weird areas

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I saw other "weights" (?) too. There were torpedo shaped things that were HUGE that Mike said were for the big boats. Those were outside. In the same spot I saw some really space age looking keels too, some with wing things that could turn and pivot and alother one that looked like it had some sort of sliding ballast that shifted from side to side. Really strange stuff.

I also saw the boat in the mold getting layup and stuff. One guy was soaking a ribbon of fiberglass with resin on this huge 30 foor table and then he would squeegee out almot all the resin and hand that off to a guy in the mold that would set the ribbon in place and then he squeegeed the ribbion even more!! It seemed like most of the resin ended up on the floor! Thier process was more like making a carbon composit than fibergalss the way I remember it. In carbon composit you vacume suck every last ounce of resin out of the carbon mat to get the strongest and LIGHTEST layup.

The guys at the factory were doing this rather slow and painstaking 'squeegee out every ounce' move over and over alternating the direction of the 'ribbons'. They were working on a box shaped area near the spot where the daggerboard goes. There was more than one hull mold - I saw another that was empty and there were guy waxing and cleaning it. The mold was tilted on a jig thing.

There is actually a lot of labor in the whole process from what I could see. I dunno - I'm very ignorant on boat construction. :? I wish i could explain better.
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Re: Foam blocks in weird areas

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Last year my 26 s along with 2 other macs were ripped off their moorings in what was reported to be 75 mile per winds. My boat and the other macs floated and were salvaged. I was able to save my new motor and many accessaries that I had spent a lot of money on. The flotation works!
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hHey slugbug are you gonna get another mac or did you fix the S? (I really really like the M that I got recently.)
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Re: Foam blocks in weird areas

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slugbug wrote:Last year my 26 s along with 2 other macs were ripped off their moorings in what was reported to be 75 mile per winds. My boat and the other macs floated and were salvaged. I was able to save my new motor and many accessaries that I had spent a lot of money on. The flotation works!
Was your boat flooded with water?
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Re: Foam blocks in weird areas

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And did it keep the powerhead out of the water?
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