LM 30 Forestay corrosion

[absport]

Anyone had experience on LM forestay corrosion
Mine is in mild steel and is corroding and delaminating also causing the fibre glass to delaminate
Cheers

[jdp]

Hi Absport,

It's difficult to comment without some pictures, I'm guessing that by mild steel you mean galvanised wire but how that would affect the fibreglass is a puzzle, send some photos and I'm sure someone will have an answer for you.

[absport]

I need to explain better - it's actually the deck mounting, under the deck in the forepeak
There are 2 bolts go through the deck, but below the deck is an angled bracket encased in fiberglass, this bracket is corroding and separating the fiberglass - having real difficulty in attaching photographs

[Sula]

I am sorry to have to say the forum is currently unable to accept further photos. We hope to have this facility working again in due course.

[tonyp]

Hi Absport,
I don't know if these will be of any help to you, but if you use the search facility in "Ideas for sharing", and type in "Reenforcement of the forestay on LM27" you should get the info on a similar problem in the 27 with a couple of photos. I know it's not for your boat, but it might give you some ideas. There is also a bit in the "Advice Sought" section on a similar problem on 28s. Try searching "LM28 stemmed fitting backing bracket"  No pics there, I'm afraid. They seem to have been lost.

Good luck
Tonyp

[Sula]

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[absport]

Aug 23, 2022 13:13:41 GMT absport said:

Anyone had experience on LM forestay corrosion
Mine is in mild steel and is corroding and delaminating also causing the fibre glass to delaminate
Cheers

I'm hoping I now can upload the pics for info
I've reduced to 700 then 48 kbytes with no success
I could show on request @ [e-mail]
TaRon

[Sula]

Oct 3, 2022 11:07:28 GMT absport said:

I've reduced to 700 then 48 kbytes with no success
I could show on request @ [e-mail]
TaRon

Apologies, but the forum is currently unable to accept any more images into the forum itself (the forum image memory limit has been reached).

If I remember correctly, you can post an image (via a link) which is hosted elsewhere.  

We are looking for way round this problem, but it ain't simple, and I am currently snowed under with more pressing (non-forum) issues so haven't yet been able to resolve it.

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[markstruss53]

Aug 23, 2022 13:13:41 GMT absport said:

Anyone had experience on LM forestay corrosion
Mine is in mild steel and is corroding and delaminating also causing the fibre glass to delaminate
Cheers

I recently addressed that issue on my 1983 LM30. It seems when they manufactured the LM30 they molded into the bow a galvanized fixture in the fore peak. It can be seen from the inside of the anchor locker. Resting on top of the metal brace is plywood which severely delaminated. The only way to remove the bad plywood was to cut through the deck. So remove the front rail, remove the plywood and replace it with 3 layers of starboard screwed together and mounted to the metal bracket. Save the top fiberglass you cut out and use that in the reassembly process. I then painted the locker and topside.