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  • Re: Maas Aero damage

    From Ed Llorca@24:150/2 to rec.sport.rowing on Sat Sep 12 20:10:56 2020
    On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 12:58:14 PM UTC-7, sully wrote:
    Some of you who use or teach in Maas Aeros might be interested to see this.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223784363144163&set=pcb.10223784842916157&type=3&theater


    There are three photos, the explanation included in the linked one above.

    I have been repairing aeros for years without ever seeing the guts, so this was an education.

    The shoulder/bulkhead piece is 7 ply marine plywood with a composite angle bracket that glues to the gunwhale/deck, and stainless inserts to screw the composite rigger into.

    The aero is a sweet boat for teaching, lightweight to carry and fairly stable and in spite of the photo, does take a beating.

    Sully, I have a reapir to do on a Maas Aero, a small crack on the bottom. Do you use epoxy or polyester to do repairs?
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  • From sully@24:150/2 to rec.sport.rowing on Tue Sep 15 21:26:59 2020
    On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 8:10:58 PM UTC-7, Ed Llorca wrote:
    On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 12:58:14 PM UTC-7, sully wrote:
    Some of you who use or teach in Maas Aeros might be interested to see this.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223784363144163&set=pcb.10223784842916157&type=3&theater


    There are three photos, the explanation included in the linked one above.

    I have been repairing aeros for years without ever seeing the guts, so this was an education.

    The shoulder/bulkhead piece is 7 ply marine plywood with a composite angle bracket that glues to the gunwhale/deck, and stainless inserts to screw the composite rigger into.

    The aero is a sweet boat for teaching, lightweight to carry and fairly stable and in spite of the photo, does take a beating.
    Sully, I have a reapir to do on a Maas Aero, a small crack on the bottom. Do you use epoxy or polyester to do repairs?

    I use epoxy, but polyester is ok.
    --- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32
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  • From sully@24:150/2 to rec.sport.rowing on Wed Sep 16 18:04:39 2020
    On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 8:10:58 PM UTC-7, Ed Llorca wrote:
    On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 12:58:14 PM UTC-7, sully wrote:
    Some of you who use or teach in Maas Aeros might be interested to see this.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223784363144163&set=pcb.10223784842916157&type=3&theater


    There are three photos, the explanation included in the linked one above.

    I have been repairing aeros for years without ever seeing the guts, so this was an education.

    The shoulder/bulkhead piece is 7 ply marine plywood with a composite angle bracket that glues to the gunwhale/deck, and stainless inserts to screw the composite rigger into.

    The aero is a sweet boat for teaching, lightweight to carry and fairly stable and in spite of the photo, does take a beating.
    Sully, I have a reapir to do on a Maas Aero, a small crack on the bottom. Do you use epoxy or polyester to do repairs?

    google changed my newsreader on me, dammit. I thought I replied. Poly will work just fine, but epoxy better, I usually use epoxy for everything but on a small quick job the poly holds up fine.
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  • From Ed Llorca@24:150/2 to rec.sport.rowing on Thu Sep 17 12:16:37 2020

    google changed my newsreader on me, dammit. I thought I replied. Poly will work just fine, but epoxy better, I usually use epoxy for everything but on a small quick job the poly holds up fine.

    Tx for the answer. I was under the impression you had to match the repair resin to the original construction resin.
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  • From sully@24:150/2 to rec.sport.rowing on Tue Sep 22 12:47:08 2020
    On Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 12:16:38 PM UTC-7, Ed Llorca wrote:
    google changed my newsreader on me, dammit. I thought I replied. Poly will work just fine, but epoxy better, I usually use epoxy for everything but on a small quick job the poly holds up fine.
    Tx for the answer. I was under the impression you had to match the repair resin to the original construction resin.
    At the Clear Lake club that I founded, we had to move our boat yard. When we were done I looked at the two racks of singles and surfskis in the new spot and realized I had to do a major major repair on each boat in order to get them rowable for the club. Much of it happened over many years.
    I closely inspected a boat I repaired about 15 years ago. It was a Maas 27 that the owner had broken into 3 pieces. He took riggers, seat, footboards and gave me the hull pieces. I did a s***ty job of lining it up, I got the horizonal line ok but the middle broken section is slightly off. I had everything plumbed, but hadn't figured out how to build a jig to hold the line on the pieces while I installed the structural strength.
    I live 2 hours from any place I could buy epoxy at the time so used polyester as I wanted it DONE!
    Unfortunately the boat is still slightly bent, time hasn't magically straightened it out, but the repair itself has held up really well.
    No soft spots, or spider cracks.
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