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Old 09-15-2011, 11:47 AM
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The hull to deck joint is precisely why I love the old C&Cs (not the ones with cored hulls though). The joint is through bolted and you can access the nuts from the cabin. If you get a leak, you can see where it is happening from the cabin via periodic inspection, put a socket on the nut and tighten it up. The butyl tape under the toe rail lasts, from my experience, a long, long time. Plus, I do like the balsa cored decks versus plywood coring. My old Ericson 27 had plywood cored decks and they definitely had widespread delamination issues. Those dudes at C&C were ahead of their time.
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