A friend and I bought a 1971 Venture 21 and we're going to have to pull our keel and remove the existing fiberglass and remove all of the rust, it almost looks like the plates are delaminating! Thanks for documenting your process, hope you're having fun with your boat!
Good video Thanks for posting and glad to see your darling dotter helping out Your boat should close haul better and go faster now for switching tacks This year i acquired a tanzer 22 and am looking at the same thing as the keel doesn't drop You did a nice job there and made a good reference video cheers
This is such a useful post - I'm about to buy an Investigator 563 (small trailer sailer - I live in Australia) and the centre board is sitting separate to the hull. You have answered all of my questions. I've got this :)
the ospho probably has phosphoric acid in it - the acid combines with the rust (ferric oxide) and steel to create ferric phosphate which is inert and doesn't rust with a black appearance In Australia it is called Ranex and can also be used to clean stainless steel
I am looking at some large Irwin sale yachts, which all had swing keels and most of them have been lost in people retrofit just for the solid Keel. But lie that they ever had a swing. Keel.
A $150 Sandblasting bill would have significantly decreased your time invested as well as consumable material cost, but most importantly would give you 1000X better mechanical adhesion of the epoxy sealer & fairing. The shiny surface left by the wire wheel is bad ju-ju when expecting epoxy to really grab.
LOOKS LIKE A PIECE OF ART...
I agree.
A friend and I bought a 1971 Venture 21 and we're going to have to pull our keel and remove the existing fiberglass and remove all of the rust, it almost looks like the plates are delaminating! Thanks for documenting your process, hope you're having fun with your boat!
Good video
Thanks for posting and glad to see your darling dotter helping out
Your boat should close haul better and go faster now for switching tacks
This year i acquired a tanzer 22 and am looking at the same thing as the keel doesn't drop
You did a nice job there and made a good reference video cheers
Great job. It looks great. I am sure it was a good learning experience for you. I certainly learned allot!
This is such a useful post - I'm about to buy an Investigator 563 (small trailer sailer - I live in Australia) and the centre board is sitting separate to the hull. You have answered all of my questions. I've got this :)
the ospho probably has phosphoric acid in it - the acid combines with the rust (ferric oxide) and steel to create ferric phosphate which is inert and doesn't rust with a black appearance In Australia it is called Ranex and can also be used to clean stainless steel
I have to wonder about the ccost of a piece of plate steel cut with cnc plasma or water saw would cost compared to the consumables you used.
That is a good point. I have no idea.
I wondered the same thing. I have no idea either.
Great job bro
I am looking at some large Irwin sale yachts, which all had swing keels and most of them have been lost in people retrofit just for the solid Keel. But lie that they ever had a swing. Keel.
Thank you for posting just got a 14 ft with center board and not impressed with it
A $150 Sandblasting bill would have significantly decreased your time invested as well as consumable material cost, but most importantly would give you 1000X better mechanical adhesion of the epoxy sealer & fairing. The shiny surface left by the wire wheel is bad ju-ju when expecting epoxy to really grab.
Thanks for the feedback. I didn’t know that about a wire wheel.
All of the blasting I looked into was more than $1,000.
Was there an existing keel bolt bushing you drove out? Did you drill out the hole and then insert the new bushing?
There was no bushing. I inserted one because the hole in the keel was rusted and didn’t have as much material as it did originally.
Kudos for attacking the job !
🤣😅haha
epoxy without cloth has no more strength than glass.
Facts
Not everyone deserves a fifty-year-old centerboard.