Plastic Classic Forum

Thanks Rachel for the reply. In looking at the bilge area of the boat, it seems to be the shallow "false keel" type of bilge, not the deep one. What is in the false keel area? Air? Evidently someone just glassed over the lead ballast. It is delaminating from the lead in places, and the gla...

Hi Group, I am now the owner of Triton #130. According to the list of difference in the National Triton website, the East Coast Tritons had external ballast until around hull #381? Mine is hull number 130 (or so the plate in the cockpit says) but she has internal ballast. So, either the list is wron...

Thanks for all the advice. Well, after thinking about it and getting advice here and from the Trintella yahoo group, looks like we will go with natural teak. I think the Maritime Teak Deck Caulk is chemically the same as the Teak Deaking systems SIS 440, if I am not mistaken. Is there anyone out the...

Hi Group, This is my first post to this group, so I'll introduce myself first. I have a 1968 Trintella 29 with wood cabin and teak decks. I am just finishing up a complete deck re-core with balsa. I am nearly finished with laying down the teak using a method I learned from an expert who laid decks f...