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The Northern California/Lake Tahoe Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society, Inc. Volume 36, Issue 3 Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2018 acbs-tahoe.org Page 2 Western Wood Three Chapter events to go: Lake Shasta Rendezvous– September 7-9 Delta Cruise– B&W Resort- October 5-7 Annual Meeting- Orders can be placed with Barbara Foster by e-mail: Campbell/San Jose– [email protected] November 2-4 or call 925-989-3626 Spell your name as you want it on the badge and say what kind of a clip you want magnet or pin. Thanks Barbara At our Annual Membership Meeting in November, the ACBS NC/LT membership elected the 2018 slate of Officers and Directors as follows: OFFICERS President: Layne Davis 1st VP: Robert Gaestel 2nd VP: Don Leutz Western Wood is published quarterly – Winter, Spring, 3rd VP: Virginia Gompertz Summer, and Fall for mailing to over 600 members of Secretary: Jane Bane our Northern California / Lake Tahoe Chapter. Your Treasurer: Jared Hein advertising dollar takes your business to the center of DIRECTORS AT LARGE the select Northern California classic boating community Immediate Past President: Debra Dobbins and activities. Editors, Western Wood: Lee and Sandy Chase 2016 Rates: Color Web ad Director of Information Services: Sandy Chase Business Card 4 times $250 $75 Director of Advertising: Virginia Lukkes (2 x 3 1/2”) 1 time $75 $25 Director of Philanthropy: Rich Fisher Quarter Page 4 times $500 $150 Class of 2018 Directors (4 x 3 1/2”) 1 time $150 $50 Heidi Kashyap Half Page 4 times $800 $250 Joel Castro Class of 2020 Directors (4 1/2 x 71/2”) 1 time $250 $75 Annie Hill Lew Dobbins Full Page 4 times $1600 $350 Dave Lyon Barbara Foster (9 1/2 x 7 1/2”) 1 time $500 $100 Class of 2019 Directors Doug Reed Miles Kashyap Doug Shone Inquire To: Virginia Gompertz Pat Butler [email protected] Bill Means Gordon Kirkland Western Wood Page 3 acbs-tahoe.org On my Campbell I found that an alarming amount of water was coming in around the rudder through hull fitting. This fitting sees a lot of stress under way and apparently it worked the caulking lose enough to let water seep in. When I removed the rudder fitting I found a lot of very wet rotten wood next to the fiberglass skin. The fiberglass itself was it great shape. Since I don’t like leaky boats I was faced with the issue of how to fix the problem. The first thing I did was drill a big- ger hole through the wood (but leaving the fiberglass) for the rudder fitting. This may not sound sensible, but it did get rid of a lot of the rotten wood. I then scraped as much of the rotten wood as I could from between the fiberglass skin and the sound wood of the bottom. So now I had a boat with a too big hole for the rudder fitting and a lot of missing wood. One thing I find very interesting about antique boats is the The next step was to make sure the remaining wood was evolution of the many ways boats were built over the years. dry. I took a hair dryer and set it up to blow warm air into the The change from wooden boats to fiberglass that started in the cavity. This went on for several days, after all some of the late 50’s was more like a revolution. Some early adopters of water in there was from the Jurassic period so it took some fiberglass chose to use fiberglass as a moisture barrier wrapped time to dry it out. My next idea was to tape over the bottom around a wood boat. Chris Craft used fiberglass over wood on and pour penetrating epoxy into the cavity to treat any remain- their Silver Arrow model and my Campbell is a plywood boat ing rotten wood. If you ever try this, don’t use Duct Tape. The underneath it’s fiberglass wrapper. This approach was penetrating epoxy penetrated right through Duct Tape. I next abandoned after a few years for reasons that have become tried Gorilla Tape. That worked! I kept pouring penetrating obvious to me now. epoxy into the cavity until it stopped disappearing. Things Fiberglass is an excellent barrier to water and keeps water were looking good at this point, but I still had a giant hole in out of the boat. The problem arises when water finds its way the bottom of the boat. between the wood and the fiberglass skin, so the wood stays I filled the hole by using epoxy to glue in a hardwood wet. In the old wooden boats, the bottom planks would dowel. I poured West System epoxy all around the dowel to fill eventually dry when the boat was out of water. Not so with a any gaps and cavities. When the epoxy cured, I had a boat that fiberglass layer over the bottom. Any water that seeps in stay in would float, but I couldn’t steer it. I had to drill a new hole for for a long time. the rudder fitting if I wanted to steer. I think I got the new hole pretty close to the original location. I then set the through hull rudder fitting with gobs of 5200 caulking. I have been using the boat all summer and it is running well and staying dry inside, except when it rains. I hope to use it for a while before the next problem pops up! WESTERN WOOD is the Quarterly newsletter of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe Chapter, of The Antique and Classic Boat Society, Inc. and is published for the benefit of Chapter members. Publication dates are... May-Spring Deadline: April 15 August-Summer Deadline: July 15 November-Fall Deadline: October 15 February-Winter Deadline: January 15 The newsletter is available on our website: www.acbs-tahoe.org Questions, articles for publication, advertisements and letters to the editor, etc. should be sent to... [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] acbs-tahoe.org Page 4 Western Wood As I sit at the computer to Come join us for a fun filled write my president’s message, I Kelly and Layne Davis weekend in the San Jose and can’t help but think about all of our members that are, or have Campbell area. We have great been, affected by our Northern California fires burning right now. food and adventure planned for My thoughts and prayers go out to all of them and hope for quick you. Home base will be the control of all of the fires. DoubleTree by Hilton -Campbell We just returned from a great weekend in Stockton at Pruneyard Plaza. We have rooms “Runabouts on the River” on the San Joaquin Delta. Special blocked until Oct. 3 with a special thanks to the committee of Bobby Gaestel, Teri Parker, Joel and rate of $129 a night. See below on Debbie Castro, Don and Sylvia Leutz for all the help and joining how to make your reservations. Kelly and I in putting this Boatshow on. We weren’t sure how Start Friday in the Pruneyard the turnout was going to be for this first time show in Stockton Plaza at the Rock Bottom Brewery with all your ACBS friends. but our members came out in force, like they usually do. We had Saturday is the Mystery, at the Winchester Mystery 49 beautiful boats out there on display for the public to admire. House. We have a special private tour set up for us with special We had boat rides, booths, music, food and libations all while docents. Then lunch on the premises. The tour begins at 11:00 sitting in the shade of the club house, watching the boats go by on and only holds 50, so sign up early!!!!! the river. The Stockton Sailing Club was a wonderful venue and Saturday night is the ACBS Annual Meeting and Dinner at the dinner Saturday night was fantastic. We were highly the DoubleTree. We will elect officers for 2019 and will have a successful in putting on a very fun event for our club members. picture show honoring our past Presidents throughout the I’ve received all kinds of positive comments and it looks like we years. (Note if you have pictures of ACBS events or Presidents have a huge interest in doing this again next year. Thank you to you would like to share, send them ASAP to everyone that brought their boats out and attended this first, [email protected]) hopefully annual, Runabouts on the River. Sunday morning, Downtown Campbell shuts down its’ The year is going by so fast. Since my last message, we’ve main street for a wonderful farmers market. Meet up with already enjoyed the wonderful events of Bass Lake Rendezvous friends to walk along and pick-up some goodies to take home and Wood and Glory at Clear Lake. Thanks to Bobby Gaestel with you. Downtown also has one of the last great used books and Teri Parker for putting on yet another wonderful Bass Lake stores and an olive oil and balsamic vinegar shop with tastings. event. Barbara Foster and Jim Robello out did themselves with Wood and Glory also. Kelly and I haven’t been able to make a To book your room at the Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton Woodie Whoopie yet but we’re really looking forward to the one Hotel Campbell - Pruneyard Plaza ONLINE: at the Turner’s residence at the end of August.