Well for some reason my pictures showed up for the first couple days and now they are gone. Does photo bucket always do that? Is there another way I can post them here?
As for the foam yes, it must go. I want nothing that holds water inside. I do have the rod holders and they even have a crack so that would be letting water in. I may just lose the floor foam and fill the rod holder voids with foam, then cover them over. I'd rather have another type of rod holder anyhow.
As much as I'd like to do a full rebuild for stringers and bulkhead its simply never going to happen. I'm thinking I may try to reinforce the bulkheads by epoxy glueing a new plywood bulkhead to the existing, and then glassing that to the hull with cloth and resin. Not a perfect fix by any means but I think it would add considerable strength to the overall structure and give me peace of mind. The thought of my hull splitting open while out with my family just haunts me.
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