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cracked headliner
This is hard to explain with all the right terminology, so bear with me. I found a 1 inch vertical crack(all the way through) in the fiberglass above the bulkhead that forms the head. correction: its the fiberglass headliner. The glass comes down from the roof about an inch and recesses about a half inch, the wood comes up to meet it there. The crack is on the vertical facade where the wood trim comes up to meet it. Its on a corner. The nav station is on one side, the head door to the other. The trim was pushed out a little, so it looks like there was pressure from above. I pushed the trim back in and it was extremely tight, not sure if it should be that tight. Then I looked in the head. In the corner behind the crack, the caulking where the panels meet is separated. All I can think about is when we went for a test sail and had a very hard time getting the main up. Too much stress was put on the coach roof and it flexed down, cracking the fiberglass. I don't think it could have been from someone on top, it looks like it required more pressure. But I could be wrong about that. I would have noticed it if it had been there for a while, so I believe the previous owner when he says it wasn't there before. But, the surveyor didn't find it after the test sail. Him I don't trust! He missed a lot of other things too. Obviously, I don't want to sail it until I investigate further. The crack is directly between the secondary winch and the mast, under the deck organizers(I haven't taken the cover off yet to look at the deck). Any thoughts, good repair guys in the SF Bay area, repair manuals(already familiar with westsystem)? How concerned should I be about the integrity of the coach roof? Thanks.
Last edited by bestfriend; 12-21-2006 at 09:40 PM.
Reason: correct terminology
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