L'eau est entrée a l'intérieur du bateau, par le tube d'étambot, puisque le presse-étoupe n'est pas encore installé a demeure de facon définitive. Tous les bas de mes meubles que j'ai fait en 2006 ont trempé dans la soupe. Mais le soin avec lequel je les ai enduit d'époxy scellant et de plusieurs couches de vernis, leur ont permis de traverser cette épreuve sans séquelles apparentes. Le fond de la coque lui-meme est recouvert de fibre de verre d'un bout a l'autre du bateau et rien n'a bougé a ce niveau non plus.
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It's been roughly 6 weeks since my last post. Lots of water went down the river since, this said without trying to make a bad joke. Then, I was quite despaired because of the situation. I am still a bit upset because I lost 2 months in my season for the reason of the bad weather and the flooding that reached record levels, but my boat did not suffer from it as much as I feared. When one go back in time, to take a look at the work I did on the hull, the lower sections and the rear, in 2005 and 2006, he understands better. All these plywood panels that I used, are still not covered with fiberglass on the outside and soaked in water all the month of may and beginning of june. This seems as a catastrophic situation and that is what I believed. I was imagining scenarios like being required to tear off everything and restart. There's 2 elements that played for me and explains why the catastrophic scenarios did not occur. First, the kind of wood I used. I talked a bit about it in the relevant sections of the blog, in 2005 and 2006. I used Douglas firtree more commonly known as BC-Fir plywood, for "British-Columbia Firtree". That kind of wood is named like that because it is very common on the west coast and it is also a hard wood that is commonly used by ship-builders of British Columbia. It does not swell or distord like spruce. It also has a good resistance to rot. Then, when I did these repairs, I ignored when I would do the glassing and so, in order to protect the wood against humidity from that moment until the time I will do that work, I got the brillant idea to cover everything with some Interprotect, wich is, essentially, epoxy. That interprotect did its job. Now that the water is gone, I can examine the lower areas of the hull and I cannot see any sing of damage.
Water went inside the boat through the propeller shaft tube, because the stuffing box is not fixed yet. All the lower sections of the cabinets I made in 2006 were soaking in the soup. But the care I used to seal them with epoxy sealer and varnish them with multiple coats, allowed them to support the ordeal without apparent aftereffects. The bottom of the bilge itself is completely glassed from one end of the boat to the other, and nothing was affected there either.


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