If you go to the Woodenboat Forum go prepared. Your boat may or my not be a well known design. For certain your particular problems are not known and you have to lay those out. If you have a digital camera take pictures and post them on a picture hosting site so they can be linked to your postings on Woodenboat. It's much easier for gnomes on Woodenboat to give advice if there are high-quality picture to illustrate what is going on. Also, they just like looking at pictures of boats.
So, try to be fully plugged in from the get-go. A lot of threads like yours start out like interrogations because the poster hasn't or can't post sufficient information.

: Wooden Boat magazines has several forums with one on repair and
: maintenance.