These are photos of the original damage and the old repair cut away - 31/5/04. Click each thumbnail for enlarged view.
| Mon 31/5/04 | |
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| This was the worst damage - on the port side of the nose. Lots of water leaking out of here! | This was an old repair on the starboard side where the filler was cracked. Digging out revealed poor adhesion between filler & orignal material. Note the glob of blood on the nose! | Port nose underside with the original filler removed. Again, filler had not adhered properly to the revealed foam. Significant cavity & delamination here! | Nose-on view | |
| Sun 6/6/04 | |
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| Whilst about to begin filling-in, I noticed this crack on the port rail. | Digging it out revealed only surface damage - just the skin was cracked, oddly enough. | |||
| Sun 13/6/04 | |
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| 2nd refill job on the nose - port side. Previous laminate had left air holes underneath due to air/gas being forced out of the foam core whilst the resin was curing. All had to be dug out & redone! | ||||
| Tue 15/6/04 | |
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| Two new cracks discovered - at a rather late stage!! Unfortunately, these had gone right through to the foam core, so another excavation job needed! | ||||