Tidahapah
Guru
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2007
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- Location
- Australia
- Vessel Name
- Flora
- Vessel Make
- Timber southern cray boat
No I have a steel shoe that is 10" wide and 4: deep this encapsulates the Iron Bark keel and when fitted it was filled with tar epoxy and thru bolted
every 4 feet.
The shoe goes half way up the stem.
It is more for protection from the reef than anything else but does keep the worms out of the keel.
A sacrificial piece of more worm loved timber used to be used on a lot of timber boats but this practice has fallen away these days with more people fitting a shoe.
One still must keep a good eye around the edges and check for worm bubbles every time you haul out.
If any suspicions a good squirt of creasote does the trick.
Benn
every 4 feet.
The shoe goes half way up the stem.
It is more for protection from the reef than anything else but does keep the worms out of the keel.
A sacrificial piece of more worm loved timber used to be used on a lot of timber boats but this practice has fallen away these days with more people fitting a shoe.
One still must keep a good eye around the edges and check for worm bubbles every time you haul out.
If any suspicions a good squirt of creasote does the trick.
Benn
