I've got some bad news. Termites!!!

[taqwache]

Well Ill be heading down there to see it this weekend to get a better look at the damage. Unfortunately the only place I have to keep it is right under a tree without a cover. Im sure that is how they got in there in the first place. If I think it is to bad, its going up for sale. It will be a good boat for someone with some time to fixer up or part it out since mechanically its fine. I already have another V20 with a better hull but I was saving it for when I can afford a better motor that the little 86 100hp evinrude on the 81. I might just have to compermise though. Ill keep yall updated.

[Stillrunning]

I'd just swap your motor over to the other boat until you find a new motor. Selling the motor on a bad boat will also drop the value of the motor along with the drop in value of the hull.

[Jdog]

Wait a minute, Can termites chew through fiberglass? I dont see how, you would think the only termite damage would be wood that is not covered in glass, am I correct?

[bgreene]

I saw an entire herd of wildabeasts charging through my V21 last week.

I stood there and said " you gotta be kidding me "..........

Checking for damage after the stampede, it was just dirty.

Termite solutions:
1. pesticide in spray bottle
2. torch the entire boat
3. submerge the entire boat long enough to drown them out
4. none of the above

Sorry about that -- that's sad to read. Wood and boats, not good.

[draglink]

I just want to say, I'll have whatever BGreen is having!

Sorry about the termites. Only other time I've heard of this is over ClassicMako.com. Think that guy was trying to part out the boat last I heard.....

[Destroyer]

To kill the termites.. Open all doors and hatches on your boat. Tent the entire boat... (top, bottom, sides, etc) so that it is as near to airtight as possible. Leave an access port that you can get into and then seal after you leave. Go to an old fashioned hardware store or greenhouse supply company and buy a sulpher bug bomb/insecticide fogger. (The kind you light, not the areosol kind). Take a pie pan and fill the bottom with sand, place the bug bomb on the sand, place the plate on your boats cockpit deck, hold your breath, light the bomb, get out of the boat fast, seal the open port and go have a beer (or more). Come back no less than 10 hours later. Open the port, let the boat air out of the fumes. Untent the boat. All your termites will be dead. You may have to do this a few times a week apart because of termite eggs, but it will kill anything living in your boat... guarenteed. Don't play around with this, the sulpher fumes are deadly to any living thing, insects included. This is how greenhouses get rid of aphids, fungus gnats, mites, whiteflies and other bugs that are eating/killing the plants and flowers they grow. It WILL leave a light yellow powder on most surfaces that you can just hose off.

[jasoncooperpcola]

And hope you do not have a fuel leak.