Nutshell

 So this Whole thing started at the starboard mainsail TRACK. Yep, That is the whole story wrapped up in a nutshell.

     1. There were a couple of really long bolts, that started leaking for some unknown reason. It could have been the bolts that they put in to hold the life line poles, that were crossed up with the super long bolts.

     2. Someone at some time put stupid caulking on it to 'stop' the bleeding. Although I don't know their situation, or why the chose silicone caulking.

     3.  The lowest spot of the 1o Foot Track *TFT* is right at the head sink. The TFT runs from the stove to the farthest head wall/aft cabin door wall. Along with the stantion plates that run along both sides as well. 

   Regardless of the culprit TFT, there had beed alot of water that seeped through the wood, and in some cases just ran down the hull to the bilge. But most of it seeped, and rotted alot of wood on the whole starboard side, slowly rotting away. Until someone comes along and says 'not on my boat' and rips the whole thing apart and puts in all new wood, screws, glue, fiberglass, epoxy, 52hundred, varnish, with hundreds of hours on the elbow grease guns, and busted knuckles to everyone that helped. We ripped her down to fiberglass, and built her right back up to be stronger than before On the inside fiberglass wall I wrote our last name and year we installed the frames and such, 2oI3 is when we did the galley and head.   With the head being the entry point for all the water, most of it rain, but some is salt water, damaged everything. But that was not too big of a project for our Cap'n or his crew.

   We took the whole starboard side of the boat, right down to the fiberglass, where you can see light coming through the fiberglass. All the way from the Cap's navigation station, through the stove, and the whole refrigerator, the sink, that is now a double sink, re~enforced the bulkhead, cleaned and freed the through holes, all the head floor he restored and rebuilt, and part of the aft cabin floor he had to take it apart piece by piece, and glued and sanded piece by piece, then 4 coats of varnish, looks like new. Down into the engine compartment, all the wood was rotted, the engine mounts have a wooded piece that has been replaced recently, the walls were crumbling apart when you touched them, the cap'n sealed the wall with epoxy stuff, re~wired the whole panels, re~routed some of the electric wires, more through holes down there, put up some sound proofing stuff, the bilge was full of old rotten wood, I spent along time on my belly vacuuming it and scraping it all out. We re~painted the inside of all the cabinets through out the boat. The countertop in the head was shot too, so we kept the actual doors and frames, but replaced all structured panels the whole way down the starboard side. All the cosmetic wood has been sanded down to the wood, 4 clear varnish, and 1 top coat of the rubbed effect varnish, all 6 doors, and every cabinet door included. No Cetol below, ever.

     bunkmate