Listers:
Hope all is well. First, I have a question. A friend of mine who owns a C&C 41 (probably ‘80s vintage) discovered that his aluminum diesel tank is leaking. He plans to pull it tomorrow to confirm. I talked briefly with Bill Coleman on this list, and he suggested replacing the aluminum tank with a plastic tank. Does anyone know a source for a plastic replacement diesel tank that will fit this boat? (I assume it’s about 20 gallons.) Please advise. Thanks. Second, I thought I’d report on a recent discovery you may find interesting. As most of you know, my boat is a C&C 42 Custom, “Custom” meaning that it was not a production run boat and was built in the Bruckmann shop. Six of these “stick boats” were built in the mid ‘70s. Every year about this time of year, I get annoyed by a stubborn crack that appears near the top of the forward edge of the keel, near the top where it meets the hull. As most of you understand, this is the front of the so-called C&C smile. On my boat, the C&C smile crack runs along the bottom of the hull where the keel is mated, more or less parallel to the bottom of the hull (the “main smile”). However, I have a second C&C smile that starts at the forward edge of the keel about four of five inches below the forward edge of the main smile, then tapers up toward the bottom of the hull, eventually meeting the main smile about 2/3 of the way back to the aft edge of the keel. I never understood why I get this “second smile.” A few weeks ago some water was seeping out of the stubborn crack at the front edge of the main smile, and I asked my guru to find out what the heck is going on. After some grinding and drilling, he informed me that my keel was probably not made to fit my boat. Instead, the keel from another boat was adapted to fit my boat by creating a lead “wedge” piece (sort of like a big shim) that is widest at the forward edge of the keel and tapers going aft. This wedge fits between the top of the original keel and the hull, giving me two mating seams and thus two C&C smiles. Apparently, my boat is very happy. Matt Matt Wolford C&C 42 Custom Erie, PA
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