I got stringer problems!

[Franco]

I am a survivor of V20 stringer repair. Mine is a 1983 V20
steplift with a Volvo Penta i/o. The cockpit drains are outside the stringers. whatever water gets in the boat drain and sit in that cavity. When mine was built Wellcraft never put any sealer or bedding compound under the motor mounts. Water eventually seeped in and got soaked up by the stringers. I pulled out the motor and took it to a glass repair shop. He ground off the fiberglass pulled out the rotten wood. The transom was fine and the damaged stopped short of the first bulkhead forward of the transom. the new stringer was butt jointed to the transom and scarfed to the good section of the original. It was weeted in and epoxied down. Then the top side was wetted down and covered with fiberglass cloth bonding it to the deck. Check out the west system books on completing this repair. We add a 1 inch hole at the bottom of the stringer to let the water escape to the bilge. As far as having the rod holders drain, get some clear plastic tubing and some heat shrink tubing big enough to fit over the rod holder tubes. It should shrink down enough to attach itself to the clear palstic tubing. Use the kind with epoxy inside. Route the plastic tubing to the bilge area. Franco