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It seems everything I have read has been about deck repair from below. Why not cut from the top?
Cut down thru the f/g to the core, remove the core, replace the core and glass and epoxy from the top not from below and above your head in very ight places. Not to mention the cutting out of the interior. Cover the repaired deck with one of the several non-sid deck materials that are glued on (see Practical Sailor). I have not done this but in theory it seems a much better approach.

I have been thinking about a wood stove for the co26  even before I bought it. I had  wood Eastwood Ho 24 with a Shipmate Skippy. It too was installed with the same orientation as yours. This was  not a prboblem however as I only used it while on the hook or at the mooring.   The wood tove adds another whole dimension to comfart to late season sailing here in New England.
What kind of stove do you have? Let us know.
Also what kind of a deck plate and smoke stack head do you have?
RBPORTER

Rather then a plastice turnbuckkle tube use what I use on my shroud and backstay turnbuckles, white PVC pipe. This is  avaialable at any Home Depot, Lowes hardware store etc. It is very cheap, it won't suffocate the ss and acts as a roller of sort.

Peter SC,
You painted your topsides with which Interlux?
Yesterday I  received my 2lb can of Rolite. Experimented on two areas of about 2 square feet each,, topsides @ waterline and the transom. Results were excellent.... Based on this limited test,  painting will be many years off.

Terrance...
My boat is ZJT03350186. As I understand it she was hull #335 built in Jan. 1986. If the the fixerupper in San Diego is numbered 3231284 seemingly this would indicate that the rate of production was pretty slow, 12 boats in 13 months. What do we collectively know about JJT? How about some of you co owners up on the lake doing a little research for us?

The MSR stove is gasoline. I think a gas camp stove in a boat, possibly a pitching boat , is a bad idea. I am not familiar with the MSR. I did most of my backpacking before the MSR with a Svea 123. The Svea is a gas bomb waiting to happen in the best of conditions.  I have thrown it out of my tent into the stove more then once.
How about one of the many solid fuel or diesel wall mounted stoves with a chimney? No good for cooking but should do the heating. A  swing single burner butane stove for cooking would compliment the wall mounted stove. When the cooking is done, away it is put.

Hello again Sam...
Does your topping lift run down the inside of the mast to a hole in the mast then to the cleat or does it run down the outside of the mast to the cleat? If it runs down the inside then put a wire down lift exit  hole above the cleat and try to retrieve it where you would like the t. lift to exit at the mast step. Then a fix the wire to the lift line and pull down inside to the step and out. If the topping lift is on the outside  from the mast head then you can go aloft on Tania's steps and drop a light line with a lead weigth down inside the mast and try to retrieve with the wire you put in the exit hole at the step. Good luck. Make sure you have someone on deck on belay.
My CD Typhoon has the t. lift down the outside of the mast to a mast cleat. At the mooring the light boom hangs from the t. lift with a clip at the booms end clipped to the backstay so it doesn't swing. The co26's boom is to heavy to hang on the lift. A ss cable clamped or better yet nicropressed to the backstay I think iwould be the way to go.
I don't release my lift until the main is hauled otherwise the boom would drop in to the cockpit.  The tradeoff is that I often  sail off with a pretty ugly main.
Your headsails: You could have a bolt rope sewn into the sails luff for the furling extrusion otherwise you are going to put alot of strain on the jib halyard block that it probaly was not designed for.
Take all of this for what it may worth to you. My Typhoon went in the water three days ago and as you know my CO26 has yet to see brine since I have owned it, going on three years.
Bob of Bob & Kim, Ipswich

PS Thanx again...

My 1986 has a 10hp Buhk with three wires coming out from behind the flywheel and attaching to a terminal located on the side of the cylinder block. The surveyor could not find an alternator. He didn't know what to look for!! I t does indeed have one. My boat was sailed from a slip in the Chesapeak using only shorepower to keep the lead juiced. The previous owner probaly couldn't find the alt. either. I will be hanging from a mooring so I will dispense with the shorepower and need to get my alt. or some alt. up and running. Will mine work? I dunno. I am under some understanding, or perhaps misunderstanding, that when a alternator is spinning without an attached regualtor and battery, it some how cooks the little bits in the alternator. Does anyone know?? An aftermarket alt. will not possibly fit in the usual spots but may fit so it can run of the prop staft. I would like to know more about this option.

Adrian:
Have I  missed something? It was my understanding that his site was going down 6/1/06. I am very pleased to see that it hasn't and may have a future.  A resource for me and my co26 is very valued.
Thank you... bob, co26 #335