C&C 27 Association Forum

Work is done and it turned out easier than I first thought it would be. Here is what I did.
I loosened my shrouds and backstay as much as I could, checking the mast with a small pry bar to make sure it was not sitting tight.
Took off the door and door track.
Then I set up my jacking contraption using the screw jack from my car. I carefully jacked up the bulkhead just enough to take the pressure off the compression post.
I used my vibrating saw and a Japanese cutoff saw to take about 5 inches off the compression post, into very  healthy wood.
I had a new piece already made by laminating 3 pieces of white oak ready to be inserted. I added and aluminum shim on the bottom just to make the bottom of the post sit a little further away from the sole.
I mixed up some epoxy and wet out the top of the new piece and the  bottom of the post.
Then added thickener to the epoxy and put a healthy amount on the new piece and slid it under the post.
I took some of the pressure off the jack until the epoxy started oozing out of the joint.
Went home and came back the next day and took everything apart and retuned the rigging.
As you can see in the picture I still have to trim the excess epoxy from the joint. There is also picture of what I cut out.