Sometimes maintaining our tugs requires more than tools! That's Dave Howell, Nellie D. 37VT63, suited up in the photo below, preparing to go under the hull to work on fiberglass. It all began with the removal of a legacy depth transducer which, I might point out, was buried under the genset and dang near impossible to reach. With the boat on the hard the transducer was cut off the hull and the thru hull removed. Repairing the hole required that a 14" sloped circle be ground into the hull to provide a bed for the new fiberglass sheets. It took 26 layers of fiberglass, starting with a 14" circle and working down to one that was 2". The patch was repeatedly sanded and fared with resin to blend it into the hull. No more worries about a possible leak into the boat!
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