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maybe itll still look ok bright even with a little
flaw in that area, fix it before you decide. it would
be worth it if you could still do it bright

There isn't a boat in the world that doesn't have a repair on it Will. Glue it back together, scab on a filler piece, being neat about it and make up a story, about a wayward freighter that bashed into you on a stormy night or something. Then again, you could make it look like a scarf . . .

Maybe cut out that area and splice in a new piece? Had to do that with my rub rail on the weekender.

The split is relatively straight enough that I could clamp the two pieces together, then make a shallow saw cut along the rent at the top and face of the gunwale, maybe the bottom too if I wanted to be really convincing.  Then when I glued it back, it would look like a scarf joint, presuming that I could fashion a convincing filler piece for the bit the router ate. 

Then again, the wayward freighter story sounds much more appealing...

(03-02-2013, 02:53 AM)Will_Lavender link Wrote: [ -> ]Then again, the wayward freighter story sounds much more appealing...

Greetings Will,

Nobody is going to believe that your peapod survived contact with a wayward freighter. That's just silly. However, the nautical literature is chock full of well documented encounters with the Kraken ...

[img width=150]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort.jpg[/img] [img width=300]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Denys_de_Montfort_Poulpe_Colossal.jpg/440px-Denys_de_Montfort_Poulpe_Colossal.jpg[/img] [img width=200]http://home.comcast.net/~TomsWeekender/byyb/kraken_300.jpg[/img]

Maybe some well placed rounded sucker imprints on either side of the scarfed repair would help?

Cheers,
Tom

Come on, no one is going to buy into a Kraken story. Hell, I dated a Kraken once. She was a lot of fun, but you didn't want to be seen in public.

How about the classic sign language story. You made the classic I'm going to port hand gesture, but he being the skipper of a Liberian freighter only knew the Italian gestures, of which he offered one that questioned your mother's heritage, so you offered the universal single for self entertainment, at which point, closing fast, you offered a south central gesture, that obviously he didn't understand (a translation thing), so the crash happened.

(03-02-2013, 04:48 PM)Paul Riccelli PE,NA link Wrote: [ -> ]Come on, no one is going to buy into a Kraken story.

Yeah, ... I did some more research. Apparently, the Kraken thing usually ends pretty badly.



You better go with the hand signal story.

Cheers,
Tom

PS ...  Some educational videos ...

The Anatomy of the Kraken
Inquirey into the Cloud of Darkness
An Inquirey into the Myth of the Kraken

More videos at ... http://www.krakenrum.com/movies

At least for the time, and given my landlocked location, I will go with the story of the giant crawfish attack.

Here are some pics of substantial progress (not in chronological order).

The split out looks like it sealed up pretty good. Did if push back together pretty tight? Any thoughts on the dig out from the wayward router?

I used three clamps to get it back in place, one holding the main splinter, one holding the tip in, and one clamping vertically. A little work with a cabinet scraper cleaned up the squeeze-out and rough edges. At present I've left the gouge as it is while I work on the boat and glare at it through the corner of my eye. Might try to mortise in a patch if I get brave. Thinking on it right now.


I checked in some of my woodworking books and found a technique for repairing tearouts like this.  I'll make a "dutch boatman", a diamond shaped spline with a matching hole in the gunwale, then plane the repair to match the rest of the piece.  Should work, just have to figure out how to make everything match up before I start gluing.