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By: Joe
The deck was a major project. There were stress cracks, bad repairs, and an old paint job. The boat leaked everywhere, through the chain plates, stanchions, windows and just about any other hole. This also make the plywood core wet. So one of the first things I did was to remove all the deck hardware and windows, even though the deck repair was to be one of the last things I did. My thinking was that the core would dry over the months to come, especially any warm days that turned the shed...
By: Joe
This article will cover the floor and keel boat repair of our Catalina 30 "Clew'd In" Just to be clear, we are using the term "floor" in its proper form, meaning the part of the hull that joins to the keel. The part of the cabin we walk on will be referred to as the sole. As we have stated, our boat was suffering from the common problem many Catalinas have - the "Catalina smile." Actually we have seen this problem on many makes and models that have the same type of keel configuration. This is...
By: Joe
Welcome to the hull part of the blog describing the restoration of our Catalina 30We had identified two problems with the hull when we purchased it: * Gelcoat Crazing - cracking of the gelcoat (alligatoring) * The Catalina smile - cracking that appears at the joint of the hull and the keelCatalina Smile Catalina SmileCrazingCrazingNeither of these were properly addressed for our first season. We simply patched up the crack with some fiberglass filler and slapped on some bottom paint -...
By: Joe
These pages will mostly cover the search for, restoration and repair of our 1977 Catalina 30. We had looked around quite a bit before finding her. Even a trip to North Carolina was part of our search. (Who doesn’t love coming up with an excuse for a road trip?)She was purchased April 2007 as a test boat for our marine computer systems. We found her at Bert Jabin’s yard offered by Sail Annapolis. She spent nearly three weeks there waiting for us to be able to schedule a drop date and the...