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Sorry to dispoint, but I can’t claim to have found any good solution for keeping the lead sealed up on “Imagine”.
On most of the keel, when a spot of fairing or epoxy has failed I have ground it all down to bare lead and applied 4 to 6 coats of Interprotect 2000 to the spot before repainting with that year’s bottom paint. Years ago I attempted to fair it first, but those spots seemed to fail again relatively quickly. So now I just go with the Interprotect 2000 directly on the lead. That seems to hold up pretty well, and I have fewer and fewer spots every year.
The downside is that there are all of these little concave spots on the lead where I didn’t get as much Interprotect buildup as I had ground off during prep. But the good news is that it seems to hold up pretty well.
The joint where the lead meets the hull is a different story. I have played with trying to keep it faired over the years, but with little success. The hull settles into one shape during the winter when it is sitting on the hard and all of the weight of the boat is pressing down on the lead. Then as soon as they pick it up in the travel lift, the lead is trying to pull away from the rest of the boat, and everything takes a different shape. At that point I can see the tiny hairline cracks appear on the joint. Water gets into those cracks during the summer, and I get the oxidation streaks showing up when she is hauled out.
Sorry to say, it has been on my list of things to research for a long time, and never made it even close to the top of the list.
Imagine and I spent 3 nights on the hook in a small bay off the Severn River Northwest of Annapolis. Local reporting stations reported gusts to 60, but I was protected well enough by the surrounding hills that I never saw anything over the high 30s.
The only casualty was my waistline. Karen sent me off with so many treats that I gained 5 pounds. Not going to check my suger level for a few days.
Also hope everyone made it safely and unharmed.
Dick Clarke
John – If you would like to spend some time on the phone, always happy to talk with anyone interested in a Dickerson. I’ve got 20 years worth of pros and cons – glad to share. Send a note to the email address below, and we’ll figure out a time we can talk.
John,
Karen and I have owned our 37 for just over 20 years, and have a little over 22,000 miles on her. We started in Chicago, did 4 of the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence out past Quebec to Prince Edward Island, and the East Coast from Nova Scotia to the Exumas in the Bahamas.
The majority of that has been coastal cruising and day sailing, but two of the Bahamas trips were “offshore” direct from Annapolis, out the mouth of the Chesapeake, and to the Abacos in the Northern Bahamas. Those trips were about 750 miles of offshore, and 6 to 8 days.
Great boat for what you are planning.
Dick Clarke – s/v imagine
We have the seahood on imagine, and it is a huge help in heavy weather. As a last resort, ours could be used as a plug to create a mold. But I have to really emphasize the “last resort”. I would be really nervous about pulling it off the boat and handing it over to anyone who wasn’t an expert in doing something like that.
Dick Clarke s/v imagine