{"id":2646,"date":"2016-12-03T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2016-12-21T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T21:06:08","slug":"important-update-for-the-pt-11-nesting-dinghy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/important-update-for-the-pt-11-nesting-dinghy\/","title":{"rendered":"Important UPDATE for the PT 11 Nesting Dinghy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for us to admit it, our boats seem have a weakness. We may just be treating our boats\u00a0 poorly, but it\u2019s more likely that there is an issue that PT 11 owners should be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Owners, please check your gunwales for cracks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2648\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gunwalecrack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2648\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gunwalecrack-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"ptwatercraft.com\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gunwalecrack-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gunwalecrack.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beginning the repair&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Builders, there will soon be an added step in the building manual to prevent the problem. If you haven&#8217;t glued your bumper on yet, the fix is easy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptwatercraft.com\/GUNWALE%20FIX12-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">This printable PDF<\/a> informs for both a fix or the added step in the build process.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen this failure three times now. The first, when one of our boats got driven over (just the edge) by a truck. We thought that was unusual punishment, fixed the boat and forgot about it.<br \/>\nThe second time was a boat that got beat up by solid water while lashed to a foredeck. We didn\u2019t really know what happened there.<br \/>\nThe third time it happened, it was our newest PT 11 (3 years old now) and again we don\u2019t know exactly why, but here is our theory:<br \/>\nWhen the boat is upside down in the nested position and somebody walks on it (or a bunch of people sit on it), where does that weight go? It goes onto the very ends of the gunwales on the fwd hull half.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nested-contact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2653\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nested-contact.jpg\" alt=\"ptwatercraft.com\" width=\"537\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nested-contact.jpg 537w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nested-contact-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo shows where the load goes, (the aft corners of the forward half).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The failures we have seen have always been in the plywood hull skin (right where you would expect it).<br \/>\nFixing the break and the weakness that caused the break are both pretty easy and important. The first is done by injecting epoxy into a carefully drilled hole to fix the crack, the second by putting screws (with epoxy) into carefully drilled holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptwatercraft.com\/GUNWALE%20FIX12-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to see the printable PDF<\/a> with full instructions with photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for us to admit it, our boats seem have a weakness. We may just be treating our boats\u00a0 poorly, but it\u2019s more likely that there is an issue that PT 11 owners should be aware of. Owners, please check your gunwales for cracks. Builders, there will soon be an added step in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,55,13,46,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-instructional","category-nesting_dinghies","category-nesting-pt-11-updates","category-pt11-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}