Stringers

[dan4836]

I just received some advice from a fiberglass expert and boat builder. He advised one way to do the stringers would be to leave them intact, grind and clean them and glass over them with a layup of three to four layers of glass.

This way, I would save the time of cutting the tops off the stringers and save a step. He said in a twenty foot boat, glassing over the existing stringers with that many layers will build them up making them structurally sound without the added steps of filling the stringers with foam or Arjay.

He also said Arjay, Seacast and Nid-bond were excellent products but do add some weight and cost.

Any thoughts?