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Re: Strip: Great Auk leaks.
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 8/1/2015, 4:35 pm
In Response To: Strip: Great Auk leaks. (chris wynne)

Are you sure it's not coming through the holes for the toggles?

Either an end pour, which I find is needless weight, or a tube glassed through the hole should stop that.

Other possibility is hatches leaking, been discussed repeatedly here.

Like others have asked, more details. Does the boat have hatches, does it have bulkheads, is it leaking past the bulkheads etc.

Btw, the glass isn't waterproof, adding more won't cure a thing, resin is waterproof (mostly) adding another coat might help.

Bill H.

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Strip: Great Auk leaks.
chris wynne -- 8/1/2015, 11:56 am
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MattD. -- 8/1/2015, 12:11 pm
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scottbaxter -- 8/1/2015, 12:20 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 8/1/2015, 2:14 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/1/2015, 4:35 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 8/1/2015, 8:44 pm
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Dan Thaler -- 8/2/2015, 8:03 am
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Nick Riccardi -- 8/2/2015, 9:24 am
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chris wynne -- 8/2/2015, 9:29 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/2/2015, 9:36 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/2/2015, 11:21 am
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Nick Riccardi -- 8/2/2015, 11:31 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/2/2015, 7:37 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 8/2/2015, 9:37 am
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chris wynne -- 8/2/2015, 9:40 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 8/2/2015, 10:02 am
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chris wynne -- 8/2/2015, 11:46 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 8/2/2015, 5:03 pm
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Jay Babina -- 8/2/2015, 8:15 pm
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Phil -- 8/10/2015, 11:22 am
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scottbaxter -- 8/10/2015, 2:10 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 8/10/2015, 2:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2015, 9:24 am
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Nick Riccardi -- 8/11/2015, 1:23 pm