[11] Refurbishing an iron cast keel for my wooden Dragon sailboat

1 ton of cast iron - made back in 1938. It took me 5 months to overhaul the iron cast keel, replacing the keel bolts and mount the whole thing again. Just like in my other videos this is no instructional content but just video footage from my project. Handling heavy items like this can be very dangerous. I had a lucky escape when the keel capsized just while I was coating it. I should have fastened it to the steel rack shown in my video before getting so close to this big piece of iron. Another case of: Do it right the first time! At the end of this video the iron cast keel is in place and sealed with interface coat and 6 other layers of epoxy based coatings. Did we weld the bolts to the iron keel? No, we did not. Nuts have been welded to the bolts to fix them nuts in place.

(music: some of you by GrandBankss YT)

Видео [11] Refurbishing an iron cast keel for my wooden Dragon sailboat канала Ulrich Koch