For us lately dry days are a premium so to have a dry sunny day and nothing else going on was a great excuse to get the family on board and to get on with some window sealing . So to start of in our last youtube upload and blog post i talked about various leaky areas that i was dealing with and to this the windows were on top of the list while awaiting the fix on the fuel tank . So a sunny sunday morning and we hitched up the work boat and headed down to get on with what we could hoping to get at lease 2 windows in the saloon sealed up. As this was a 2 person job the kids cleaned some decks and me and Anna got to work removing the 20 odd nuts and bolts that held the frame in . Then it was time to prize the whole unit out which put up a good fight due t being put in with a good quality sealant but after some effort it was out . This is where the failure was , The internal seal / sealant had gone brittle and this is where the water was able to get past the seal in the frame and ingress in to the internal trim and leak down. The pic above is the state of the internal section of frame and although didn't look bad when in situ once separated from the glass it was apparent what was happening. The hardest part of the job was cleaning this out drying and resealing this . As this was the hardest part i opted for replacing this with sikaflex 221 white as a long term seal and a more basic sealant between the frame and cabin side to make it easier for future maintenance or removal . So one down and only 24 to go , Yes 24 more windows & Portholes to be sealed up as we work our way forward with the renovations meaning another 60hrs of work sealing windows as this one alone was almost 3 hrs to complete. It is great to have so much natural light coming in to the boat and for one reason why we really fell in love with Roysjoy , although luxuries like this come at a price , one being as we have found many more places for water to leak in and two the time it will take to finish this side of the renovation but we wouldnt want it any other way . simple but time consuming and again even harder to complete due to the varied weather we have lately the cost of this simple fix is still a good chunk each tube of marine sealant is 12 pounds and the frame seal another 8 pounds totaling just sealing the full 25 windows up near 200 pounds mark by the time we complete . Just before we headed home the kids wanted to go to shore and wander about on the beach but while there Adam decided it would be great fun to mess about in the mud and returned as a mud monster - Literally
Thankfully we had the work boat and not the little tender meaning he could go one end and we could keep out of reach of his muddyness until back at the slipway
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April 2018
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