[quote=Dogboy][quote=dannyv388]What are the disadvantages to weight gains?[/quote]
The boat becomes less responsive and generally less fun to sail. In the extreme case, the boat will be dangerous if heavily overloaded - unable to be steered easily and more susceptible to capsize.
[quote=rch701]Just as an academic exercise, could one drill a ~3/4" hole in the outer skin at one extreme of the delam and hook a vacuum to it to pull the inner and out skins together? Then you could inject resin at the other extreme. Thoughts?[/quote]
The resin will follow the path of least resistance. So if you only drill two holes, it’s unlikely you will saturate the entire delaminated area, more like just a narrow stripe down the middle. Typically when repairing delam, holes are drilled throughout the area and resin pumped into each hole individually. It is something of a cross your fingers and hope for the best approach. You could potentially drive a bunch of wood or sheet metal screws into the injection zone to help pull the skins together (then back the screws out after the epoxy goes “green”). Problem is that this is not likely to provide a uniform clamping of the skins - more like a bunch of small point clamps.
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