In our last episode we discovered that we have a corrosion issue with our Chainplates. Now these fella's are an integral part of Sarean's rig. However, they're not just fixed to the side of Sarean's hull – they're fully encased in fibreglass and hidden in hard to reach places!
Now we can't let this one slide as a failure here could mean we lose the rig and potentially Sarean also. So with this in mind we start the challenging process of pulling, inspecting and replacing these bad boys!

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Transcript:
last episode while we're preparing our

tow rails we discovered a potential

fault with one of our chain plates so

we're preparing to take them out we need

to create alternative stability for the

mast as we loosen the shrouds and stays

in order to access the chain plates so

Darrin's up the mast erecting out in a

forced day to help with that process and

while he's up there he's just doing a

general rigging inspection well the

waters not rusty which is interesting so

but there is quite a lot in there

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see I will reply from anyone

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I'll get up some people's what earplugs

is that the fiberglass place yeah let's

see it so what I've done a couple of

test tiles to see where it was deep it

was

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this was some of the problem here that

alerted us you know to the problem that

you know there was a bit of moisture in

this is a gas line runs through that

that section there and you can see the

rust stain coming out of it so we

thought well we'd better have a look at

it plate doesn't really look that good

from here or any way

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okay when we when we originally started

this process we actually didn't know

what was in here and we couldn't find

out really any information what was what

was actually in here so we just started

cutting and exposed the old chain the

old chain plate which you know that's

the that's the cavity that it sits in

and that's the deck level and what some

of the problem was that we were actually

getting water sitting in in this cavity

which is really not a good scenario and

we drilled this hole here and it was all

full of water so we didn't know what

condition anything was in because it was

because it's all captivated so that's

basically just a casing it wasn't solid

it doesn't actually hold the chain plate

to the boat so to speak it's actually

the down the bottom underneath the

stringer yeah strength of the chain

loaders all the strength all you're

pulling points underneath this this

stringer

this this has just formed up around the

plate itself

this was actually full of old ply which

was obviously it all went rotten so

we've died all the ploy and we've

cleaned it up so we'll just keep the

casing there the casing can stay they

will will actually glass over that whole

thing once the chain plate goes back in

there it will just glass over that and

you know all the strength is sort of

around the deck area and under the under

the stringer that's this is just

cosmetic if your life

yesterday we took the hits all down so

that we could loosen off the filler and

then remove the nose cone which houses

the bow roller assembly we've always

wanted to add another roller so now that

we're having some stainless fabricated

it's the perfect opportunity to get this

job done

you have a pointy end we gotta make this

a little bit better

we gotta extend that a little bit I get

a bit stronger around oh I'd like to

lighten these only one of them that we

really need to so I'm gonna get it ready

now I've never had one before so I

wasn't expecting it to come off like

that I was sort of expecting yeah

a lot of hammering

I thought that there would have sort of

got more right up inside anyway that's

not here inside is just full of

fiberglass and as you can see there

stick substantial five substantial sort

of bolts that hold it on it's really a

bit simple as you're like okay we got a

nice shiny new chain quite spec this

this particular ones for a back stay

there's two of them but they're all sort

of similar in shape but some are don't

have been in them and some of the angles

are a little bit different but they're

all they're all basically the side we

have going up a size in just because we

can't the other ones seem to be okay but

we've we've made them a little bit

stronger for just going out for saws

but anyway that just hooks under a

stringer and we fiberglass it in but if

we step down below okay

I can show you exactly exactly what

happened

okay this is our little worksheet V&E

your little cesspit anyway this is the

bottom of it and this is just sitting

that goes up through the deck there and

you can see it just sits under the

stringer there and there's just a little

block there that was there before anyway

we're going to just make a nice thick

lot of resin and push that up into the

resin so it's got a nice nice new little

sink to Aaron and then we'll we'll just

start the glass at all back in the way

it was before

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rightio we've we've inserted there the

first of our new chain plates and as you

can see on we've mixed up a a nice thick

thick a lot of resin there and we've

just popped it in there and it's all

smeared out just lovely and we've just

feared it off with a little trail and

we've filled in all the gaps and I'm

quite happy with what happened there

looks pretty good

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before died

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my husband's in there

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okay so I've kind of all your father in

various shapes and forms and I've got it

all laid out in a in a little sequence

but basically that's it's all it's all

cut so when it goes up I can lay it

around this this section here will fold

under and I'll put all sorts of

different shapes going on here for the

particular layer and in this case I've

used a slow hardener so it gives me a

lot more work time is the the fast

hardness can go off quite quick whereas

that's what I've used is the fast on

this this particular set up here but on

this where I'm going to actually need

quite a bit of time to lay all this up

and and paint it all one so you can see

we've started with its four layers on

there at the moment so it's that come up

form up pretty nice I've put a little

bit more thick resin in in the bottom of

this to try and make the the transition

for the the fibre some of the heavier

fibre doesn't Bend that well around

corner so I'll put a little bit more

rough heavier more thicker resin in

there just to help us out a little bit

and poke it out a bit

pop it up a bit and we'll start wiring

up some some real heavy fiber there and

she should be good okay

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okay so behind me is the cupboard that

side stay and aft lower were Houston

hiding in whatever you want to call it

and Don has been working away with the

renovated tool and the grinder to get

all of the fiber reveal and basically

from the fiber so I'll just show you

what we've ended up with so this is

covered unfortunately it's a very small

space so I'll just show you the one on

the left is a side stay and the one on

the right is our aft lower and as you

can see it's actually been housed within

a fiberglass casing and that just means

that when it goes through the deck it

goes through on the right angle to suit

the actual angle of the stay coming down

from the mast and the plate was actually

sitting on the front of it and

fiberglass in and it makes she went all

the way underneath this stringer with

the tee and so the tea was fiberglass in

underneath the stringer and that's

actually what gives us that strength to

hold it in so goes up there and through

the deck

so this is the side stay comes down

through the dick this is actually a

bulkhead so it's bolted through the

other side of the bulkhead through onto

a steel plate on the other side so the

chain plate sits on this side runs down

the side of the bulkhead and then into

the stringer it's actually got another

tee that runs through here to the belt

head and through the stringer on the

other side and it was fiberglass into

that it's actually quite strong it

actually wasn't leaking but we've

replaced it anyway so that'll give you a

bit of an idea if you if you are in the

case that you have got enclosed chain

plates because we didn't know what was

gonna be in here we'll have a little

blade out and this will give you a bit

of an idea of what you might expect to

find all right we've got our yeah wall

chain plate it and this is the this is

our little problem area might be a bit

hard to pick up on the camera but this

side is actually quite pitted and this

is what really alerted us that we may

have a bit of a problem

you know it might go for a few more

years but I wouldn't like to be silent

too far honor its in surprisingly good

Nick short of the the corrosion that

we've got just at the deck level and

that's that is the deck level where that

that corrosion line is but the rest of

it even though with this this is all

captivated in true here and this is

actually been sitting in water anyway

we'll just pop it in that in the cavity

and I'll will show you it's sort of

exactly here fitted in and what we've

got to do to to make it right okay this

is this is the deck level right where

the the pennies so that's the top of the

deck there and this is our cavity that

was was was pretty much it was full of

water because the the seal at the top

you know the Sun gets to the silicon

after a while there's a little dress

plate that goes around the top and yeah

look I I was pretty much on to it but

I'm not sure how long the water had been

in there but anyway we we drilled a hole

at the bottom and water was actually

coming out coming out of this this

cavity so we really started looking at

things and disorders that

that we need to address the problem yes

over it's got an actual backing plate as

well like it's partly true the bulkhead

and there's another backing plate on the

back of the bulkhead so that's the

backing plate that the bolts for the

starboard stay come through and down

here you can see that's the last bolt

for the starboard stay and then this is

the fiberglass in endpoint of that T

section that's at the bottom of that

stay

yeah we would we were using a 30 strain

netting my family's Ike high but this

stuff here is supposed to be quite a bit

stronger it's a it's a triple wave and

it really works well repping it around

corners and stuff like that because you

don't really want a gaps getting in

unwritten some of us the heavier for

though it doesn't them all that well

whereas this stuff here is beautiful in

club you can wrap it ran anything and it

cause its shape really well so you'll

see here that Karen is has laid the

matting over top of the area that the

chain plates in and he has got a fairly

hot mix of resin and he's just poking it

into all the areas of the

fiberglass on netting giving it a really

good solid soaking and a paintbrush is

actually quite a good way to get it in

there it's covered man so Darren is just

finishing off the sanding of the

fiberglass shape that he's put around

the a chain plate for the lower shrouds

and then I think that might be the last

layer and we'll we'll paint that up so

yeah pretty exciting one side down

another side to go so we're just taping

up we're just going to start on the port

side change lights start to get those

out so we are making a little plastic

tomb so hopefully to reduce the amount

of fiberglass dust in the rest of our

little home

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you go back

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here

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my son for when the boat

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the other it's pretty much unworkable

it's very long so I have made the space

of and away

videos and trying to get the bits and

bobs ready for us to go offshore so yeah

that's what I'm doing today my help

yeah just need a spinner and some

appreciate they don't tell you about

this in the magazine no that's two more

yes it's a great job that one okay we've

just got a new uh new barrel or assembly

back we've just got a nice double foot

on here we only had a single before

which was really a bit of a nuisance if

you had to deploy anything else off the

bear yeah you actually had to remove the

other anchor

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in amongst all their change plate

scenario with replacing everything this

was one of their little their little

jobs that we've had done as well so it's

nothing is that bushes on there

apparently yeah you're on the shine

we'll find out about that I think it's

lovely it's simple and it's good it'll

be really nice if we have to deploy a

para anchor or whatever yeah announcer

it won't chafe the line well hopefully

it's just an easy design yeah you know I

think he's done a really good job he's

he's gonna put kind of white on the on

the roller angles yeah yeah that's

fairly good he's put a little bit of

forward into it awesome good job great

job all right Joe like that so with the

chain plates completed and an upgraded

nose cone it's time to put the hit sail

back on the further

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okay so we've just got some sort of

problem with the further up

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a little bit of smoke this horrible

noise I don't know whether you

can see it but this little bush in there

as it's starting to get quite warm so

when when when this rotates around and

this this becomes hard to the masses as

the the Hellyer that it holds everything

up every time it sort of goes past this

point here makes it sort of rocks on

itself makes its clunking noises it's

not so much of an issue right now but it

probably could be if we let it go much

further

so with a drum now off Darren's just

tying off the filler while we head back

to Claude the amazing fabricator to get

some new teflon butchers made up

okay so we're all finished up with a

chain plate and we're pretty happy with

the job that we did we decided to stay

with the original system as it was with

the chain plates being encased yeah

there was some interesting advice out

there just like chain plates on the side

of the hull and just pass them on but

it's actually not quite that simple the

whole structure of the boat so we just

stuck with what what we had it was even

though it was a bit of a job but soup

yeah and it's quite a good system it

suits the way that she's built the belt

kids are already there and yeah you know

it's lasted 30 years and we only really

just the chain plates actually weren't

that bad were they no we really only had

one that had a bit of corrosion but the

rest of them are pretty much pretty much

very corrosion so so we're pretty happy

a big job all done so thanks so much for

watching we hope you enjoyed the video

and learnt from it those of you that

have encased chain plates and I've got

this job coming up hopefully you got

some some good information out of that

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