OK, we started to cut the sole out today...several photos and a few questions...
We are going about 2 inches off the entire perimeter of where the sole meets the inner gunwhale. I found a couple areas of rot that still exist in that last inch or so all the way to the where it turns into the glass of the wall. Are we OK to dry these areas, dig out anything that wants to come and fill that with a bondo type product? Again this only a 2 or 3 areas of a few inches at best.
If any areas are wet but not rotted are we OK to just get them dry and move forward? I'm talking about small areas (several inches at most) in corners or areas we'd prefer not to cut much more.
See Image A and Image B
On Image C you'll see much of the sole out showing the foam inside. This foam appears to be in good shape. It's hard, 98% dry, solid to walk on even and no smell. Can we salvage this and just cut out enough to glass in new stringers?
See Image C
OK...we drilled more holes and the stringers are shot inside....what is coming out on the bit looks like compost! Best I can tell at this point is from the transom all the way to the gas tank well is bad. Can we just take the bad area and leave any good wood ahead of gas tank area...or do most of you cut it all out and start over? Are we going to find real solid wood in the stringers or is going to be plywood...it's so think and tall...my buddy things the later!
How do any of you feel about abover putting the new floor over the old floor and having a few inches of overlap? Seal all edges of the new floor, glass the new to the old with a channel running around the permitter and then using firing strips (or similar) to place on top of the bulk heads so the floor rests on those for support?
Does anyone every screw the floor into the bulkheads to reduce noise? Seems silly that "bondo" like stuff they used to attach the floor to the bulkheads.
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