Hey Graham,  If it is a '76 then I think Stan was using mostly depleted,
uranium for ballast.  Funny, the water in the bilges never froze on my old
boat.  (grin)

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:35 PM Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> My boat has bricks of metal - steel, or possibly lead, covered with some
> fiberglass. It is ver hard like steel but has not rusted so I am not sure
> what it is.
>
> Graham Stewart
> Agile, Rodes 22, 1976
> Kingston Ontario
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf
> Of THOMAS POLISE via Rhodes22-list
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 6:10 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Testing the positive flotation
>
> I also found a mass of concrete which I chopped about 3” out to make cabin
> floor even
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> > On Sep 8, 2020, at 9:32 AM, John Keyser <retro53 at msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > ?When I stripped down my 1980 to refurbish the interior, I found a large
> mass of what seemed to be cement just behind the flotation in the bow. Some
> of it seemed to be covered with a fiberglass membrane, but some of it had
> become wet and was crumbling away. I was installing an automatic bilge pump
> a bit astern of it, so I just cleaned up the loose stuff so it wouldn't
> clog the pump. I didn't take any pictures.
> >
> > John K
> > 1980 R-22
> > Deci-Belle
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> on behalf of
> Todd Tavares <tavares0947 at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 6:41 AM
> > To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Testing the positive flotation
> >
> > Jerry,
> >
> > So what was in there for ballast originally?
> > I hope it wasn't sand and gravel as it appears in one of the pics.
> >
> > Todd T.
> >
> > tavares0947 at gmail.com
> >
> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020, 8:09 PM <cjlowe at sssnet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Before I put the ballast Back in, I took her to a closer lake and
> motored
> >> around for an hour , checking for leaks. Dry as a bone, YEA.
> >> I take it he rudder off for trailering and I didn’t bother putting it
> back
> >> on for this test. I do not recommend this as stealing is very dicey. All
> >> went well and I went home and filled the bilge and fiberglassed I over.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> After cleaning out and sanding the repair area inside and out, I put 4
> >>>> layers of cloth/mat on the outside and alternating 4 layers each of
> mat
> >>>> and roving  .
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Parts of the CB trunk you most likely haven’t seen
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Inside looking out
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Switched from tablet to phone and the pics are big, so a few more
> >>>>>>> pics
> >>>>>>> and
> >>>>>>> then more story.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I called my brother on the way home, and he agreed to meet me back
> >>>>>>> at
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>> lake to pull out. The pump kept up to the ingress for over three
> >>>>>>>> hours,
> >>>>>>>> until the boat was on wheels. The hole was about ten inches
> forward
> >>>>>>>> of
> >>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>> centerboard trunk , about the size of my fist. This area of the
> keel
> >>>>>>>> is
> >>>>>>>> where most of the ballest is. About a heaping dish pan full came
> out
> >>>>>>>> of
> >>>>>>>> the Area  I needed to access for the repair. Time for supper , so
> a
> >>>>>>>> few
> >>>>>>>> more pics and more later.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Jerry Lowe SV Country Rhodes ‘86
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> A month ago, I went out on my first overnight in two years. Nice
> >>>>>>>>> uneventful night, woke up to the swallows darting in and out of
> the
> >>>>>>>>> wispy
> >>>>>>>>> morning fog and using my rigging as home base for their morning
> >>>>>>>>> hunt.
> >>>>>>>>> Dove
> >>>>>>>>> into a much needed bucket and sponge wash of the topside. Then on
> >>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> way
> >>>>>>>>> back to the dock,I went to part of the lake I don't normally
> visit.
> >>>>>>>>> On
> >>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> way back to the dock I hugged the shore more closely than I do
> when
> >>>>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>>> normally return to the slip. 500 feet front my slip, at no wake
> >>>>>>>>> speed
> >>>>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>>> hit something under water. It lifted the front of the boat up
> and I
> >>>>>>>>> was
> >>>>>>>>> hung up. I rocked the boat side to side several times and no
> luck.
> >>>>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>>> stepped back to put the motor in reverse, and it freed itself.
> Went
> >>>>>>>>> to
> >>>>>>>>> slip and tied up, and just before I went home, I thought I'd
> better
> >>>>>>>>> check
> >>>>>>>>> the bilge. One inch below the floorboards, and rapidly rising.
> >>>>>>>>> Home , truck, and trailer are 35 miles away, so I go to the
> marina
> >>>>>>>>> and
> >>>>>>>>> buy a bilge pump and some hose. I cut the cord off the hand held
> >>>>>>>>> vacuum
> >>>>>>>>> and wire and plumb every thing up and head for home. I'm going to
> >>>>>>>>> stop
> >>>>>>>>> here and post a few pictures and start a new post. Notebook
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