It is a daunting task. First off, do it when it's warm out. All those bolts and nuts on cold fingers feels terrible. My toe rail has an outward facing flange which made it a potential solo job but I chose to bring a friend on the two days of Mizery I endured. I removed the stanchion bases myself by locking a small long nosed vice grip to the nuts while turning the bolts from the deck. The vice grip lodges against the hull and works like a solo charm. Don't replace them this way! Do the job on the hard while standing on wide planks set between two ladders. Crouching to the deck feels like crap after a while. Watch out when that last bolt comes out because the the toe rail wants to go back to a straight position and its under a lot of tension. When mine let go it damn near knocked me right off the ladder! The old butyl came off fairly easily. It was no longer bonded to the rail and i scraped off the deck with a razer type knife which is also easy as that area of my deck has no non-skid. Acetone removed the remaining residue. Rail goes back on in reverse process after receiving two stripes of butyl. I poked out each screw hole before screws went in to avoid pushing all the butyl through in that spot. I found the original bolts hard to use because I'm guessing when the boat was built the bolts were all trimmed to length with shears after installation. Hard to start the nuts. After the bolts are in have your "friend" go below and run the ratchet wrench on the nuts while you stay on deck with a big mother screwdriver being sure not to move the bolt which will screw up the butyl. Don't over do the tightening. Butyl will continue to squirt out for a while. That's about it. Good luck. The sooner you start the sooner the hell is over, especially if you have to cram yourself into a lot of awkward spots.
Brent D 27-5 Lake Winnipeg Sent from my iPhone On 2013-08-27, at 8:59 AM, OldSteveH <[email protected]> wrote: > Brent I am considering re-bedding my toe rails, but keep putting it off > because it's a daunting task. > Is there anything you did or would do again which made the job easier? > What solvent did you use to remove the old butyl rubber? > What complications did you encounter (eg screws seized or stripped) > What manpower did you have - eg one inside, one outside or is there a way to > do it solo? > > Thanks > > Steve Hood > S/V Diamond Girl > C&C 34 > Lions Head ON > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:38:24 -0500 > From: Brent Driedger <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Stus-List recaulking toerails > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Caulking is an ok and very temporary repair but only if you want to do the > job every 5 months. I removed Wild Rover's toe rails and re-bed with 1/8 > butyl tape 5 years ago and have had no problems. I would use 1/16 if I did > it again but at least I know I can do it again as I did not use and marine > adhesive. > The black toe rail expands and contracts a lot and at a different ratio than > the fibreglass so I figured the highly flexible butyl would be the best > choice. I'm glad I did it. As the years go on I know I'll need to torque > the bolts a bit and eventually re-do but that's boat ownership. Maintenance > never stops. > > Brent D > s/v Wild Rover > Lake Winnipeg > C&C 27-5 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-08-26, at 2:25 PM, Ed Dooley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I?m not an expert in this at all, but when I first thought of doing it on > my 24?, and using >> something out of a tube, I was told by many to use marine grade butyl > tape, nothing else. >> Ed >> >> >> >> From: <[email protected]> >> >> I need to recaulk the toerails on my 32' C&C. My thought is to remove the > bolts, clean out all the old material between the underside of the deck and > the rubrail and between the bottom of the toerail and the top of the deck. > I would use Skiaflex to reseal these areas and Buytul tape for the bolt > holes. Any thoughts, experiences? >> Jesse A. Rieber >> Witch of the Westmoreland >> 32' C&C, Cotuit, Cape Cod, MA >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> [email protected] > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://cnc-list.com/pipermail/cnc-list_cnc-list.com/attachments/20130826/3d > c7e7e9/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
