Another Floor Repair Question

[joe7670]

OK, so I cut out the deck and took off the wood much like skools did.

Deck is upside down in garage with all the wood scrapped off and sanded to make it as even as possible. (Picture Below) Now with respect to the wood which I'm going to put on it.

1. Should the wood be resin coated first on it's own and then resined in thickly to adhear to the floor?

2. Or should I be thickly resinning in the wood to the floor at once?

When I say thickly, I say it cause the floor is not exactly 100% flat. It had some nooks and cranies so hoping that by putting the resin thick it'll fill in any gaps and avoid leaving air pockets below.

Is there any special resin type that I should be considering? I'm thinking low viscosity so that it's easy to spread. I'm leaning towards option #2 from above with coating wood with resin and coating floor sparingly with resin and then laying the wood on it to adhear in one step. Hoping that this would make it adhear better but I may be wrong.

Then once all wood is done I can lay glass over it all.

Correct me or advise if you know the best way.

Another issue which i'll need to address when putting floor back on boat will be that i'm using 3/4 inch marine ply and it looks like Wellcraft originally used around 5/8 inch. I'm thinking of making up the difference on the top side when joining the two.

[Skools Out]

go back with the original 1/2 wood that way you won't have line up issues. you can either glass the bottom of the wood then screw it down and then just mix a thick slow heavy batch of mas epoxy to glue the floor skin cover back in the boat, mas epoxy the wood to the floor skin and work to get the floor back in correctly. i'm going to do option 1 in my V20, and i'm using kiln dried 1/2 treated plywood. but if you can't get kiln dried treated just use reg. plywood non treated.

[joe7670]

So if I can't find 1/2 inch marine use 1/2 inch regular ply?

I'm tending to go with the applying wood to deck cap before installing into boat as I need to add the fish box back in and I can mold the wood onto it quite nicely.

Question was really around resin wood before even attaching to cap or just resin as it's installed.

[Skools Out]

yeah paint the wood and the deck first then put together. i'd go with mas epoxy to bond the 2, use the slow so you have plenty of time to work it plus better stronger bond. yeah use the 1/2 most ply you can find plywood. the best plain is cabinet grade hardwood ply from lowes as it is 9 to 11 ply in 1/2 inch. get plenty of stuff for weight to set on it to hold tight to the floor till dry. several 5 gal buckets full of water or sand works great for weight. make sure you grind the back of the floor all over to get a good bond to clean glass.

[joe7670]

Should I put any layer of glass between the wood and the cap? or just epoxy?

[Skools Out]

just epoxy will work as long as you grind the old glass surface to get a good bond.