Lets hope that screw doesnt start to work out; otherwise you would have a friend with a screw loose!
While that fix sounds workable, not repairing it in a more permanent fashion is nonsense. My first boat was a used Lido 14, I bought it for just a couple hundred dollars, when I first saw it she was in a slip and had a weed growing from the centerboard trunk (not a pretty sight). After cleaning it, my brother and I took it for a sail. The marina was Ft Washington Marina on the Potomac River. We sailed out into the main river and turned south and then down a couple miles and then while tacking back, in front of Mount Vernon of George Washingtons fame, my brother looked over the side to see a stream of water coming out of the side. We beached the boat and discovered a small clean round hole about ¼ in diameter. We looked around and found a small twig and with the help of my pocket knife we scrapped back the bark and inserted it into the hole. We sailed back to the marina and then put the boat on the trailer and took it home where we repaired the hole with fiberglass. The patch help until we sold the boat for several hundred dollars more than I paid for it. Joe McCary Aeolus II #4795 West River, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dick Holmes I have a friend who owns an Ericson 27. He was drilling a small hole in the cabin sole (I forget why) and the drill slipped. When the water started squirting into the cabin, he had his wife put her finger over the hole while he jumped over the side and put a sheet metal screw into the hole from underneath. As far as I know, it's still there. And he won the Ensenada race with the screw in place.
