[quote=dmgbear55]Ed you are mixing up your boats and how the beam straps work. On the earliest boats the strap ends do not fully seat down against the hull or have any kind of rubber bit underneath what you are calling the chip. The system you are referring to is a later and better arrangement. If the straps do not properly tighten against the beam, which they can't when the beam has been as badly compressed as this one is (as evidenced by the "chip" being completely bottomed out on the hull in the image), the beam will not be adequately restrained and even if you did the glass repair you would probably have the same problem again. Riveting the straps now to keep the hulls in place may be a way to put off the full repair. Using more old straps that have been stretched or have elongated holes from service is a bad idea on these much older boats.
This boat has been wracked pretty severely. The images are of main and rear beam ends, so both beams have been damaged, this is not a ding. It is still very fixable, but does need some TLC.[/quote]
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