Goop to seal between wood and canvas?

[Jeff Kelety]

Hi all -

Around where the forward hatch sides come in contact with my canvas deck, there is the foremost section that has always had some sort of filler in a 3/32" gap between wood and canvased deck. When I got Nais, it was a black silicon seal of some sort. Was recommended to me that I replace it (as it was pulling away) with above-the-water seam compound. Well ok. Did this along with a bit of paint to match the deck. But every year it too pulls away and I have to do it yet again. Is this the typical regimen? Or is there a better goop, a better way?

Thanks!
Jeff

[ 10-29-2002, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Jeff Kelety ]

[Art Read]

Maybe I'm not picturing this right, but wouldn't a a pair of well bedded, quarter round "trim" pieces in wood to match your hatch sides be a more "elegant" solution. It would certainly hold up better and you'd be less likely to get fresh water in there...

[cherokee]

jeff- have you considered small wood trim set in good old bedding compound? :)the trim piece deflects the water from the joint your having trouble with and depending on how you set it up can be removable to re-bed as necc.maybe there's no room for trim.....linseed oil and the clays used in bed'ng compound sure are nice to work with and easier on our earth ship/life boat ;) having worked all my life with goops solvents epoxies et al i'm now rethinking my approach. the 'miracles' smell bad,make your skin peel etc and that in itself should tell us something :eek: that's my twosense...ah port townsend ;) what boat do you have anyway?i'm getting the itch for a gartside cutter.... :D ,john

[Jeff Kelety]

Thanks, gents. I do have quarter round around the vertical (90 degree) pieces. But this forward hatch component is angled off the deck at about 45 degrees or so (see below). So in all its 52 year history it probably sat flush to the deck with some goop there. I could cut a quarter+ round piece, perhaps, to fit there. But was hoping for the easier path, if one existed.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid27/pa84431351eca38936639757df4971516/fd6fffc7.jpg

[Art Read]

Ahhh... That makes more sense. Hmmmm... With my cockpit coamings, I treated the deck/coaming joint as simply another "seam" in my deck planks. But the coaming itself is well bedded where it runs down vertically past the deck/carlins. Time will tell, but I suspect I may be adding a quarter round there as well after watching that joint for a season or two...

If you're not happy re-doing the putty "solution" every season, (and that DOES seem an invitation to water ingress under your canvas, etc.) and wood feels too "clunky", perhaps a strip of bronze shaped in the proper angle and well bedded? Wood might be easier and cheaper though? Looked at this detail on other folkboats yet? Seems unlikely you're the only one to have this little problem....