Is the dagger board supposed to be filled with epoxy? It looks like there are drain holes on the bottom. My dagger board sound hollow if I tap around the middle.

I went ahead and and sanded down the rudder and reapply gel coat. Looks like I’ll be able to make it work. For the life of me I could not get the gel coat smooth on the daggerboard. I ended up sanding the gel coat and spraying it with bottomcoat. Now the dagger board rope holes look like the epoxy i...

Guess I am buying a new rudder.

So I poured a can of wood hardener in the rudder and used some low expansion foam. Looks like it worked. I'll lay up a layer of 4oz cloth and give it a hot coat.

I purchased a 1988 26D about a week ago that needs a bit of work. The Rudder sounds like a rain maker a has some cracks in it and I can see where it looks like the wood rotted away. I was thinking I could do the following. Pour wood hardener into the cavity, inject low expansion foam, sand, patch, p...