[95gts]

Yeah, my next boat will have no wood in it's construction and will be fuel injected! lol

[Motoxxx43]

You could just use a vinyl patch kit for that small split. I had one on a captains chair. Used some super glue inside an touched up the outside. Hard to tell where it is now.

Interesting place for wood... I'm sure it can be fixed fairly easy though.

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[gahooligan]

As an update when I remove the trim piece and started to dig the word out I realized it was constructed as such like a sandwich:

Fiberglass floor
\ 3/8 plywood /
Thin fiberglass
\ 3/8 plywood /
Thin fiberglass

The thin fiberglass is still intact, but the wood is toast. When it was called "spongy" in a post above, the description was extremely accurate. It feels just like a sponge! It doesn't really look like plywood either. Looks like a sheet of solid wood. Not sure that was possible. I am assuming it was originally plywood. So now the question is do I use 3 eighths inch plywood and keep the same much as it is or do I do away with the fiberglass layers and mount one thick piece of wood under there. I could dig out a good bit of the wood but I'm not sure that's a good idea and may weaken the center of the floor even more. Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated. Does anyone know of a squritable filler that dries very rigid but not brittle. Maybe I could dig out the wood and fill it with that.


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[ColoradoDiablo]

Start injecting.

GIT-ROT

[gahooligan]

So I am assuming the wood would have to be dry to use that I don't see any way of getting all the water out of there. All water from the anchor compartment front cooler and compartments under the bow seats runs down the carpet and that carpet runs all underneath the bow floor. So basically that wood just sits in water that never fully dries.

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[ColoradoDiablo]

Maybe chase the drain from the front cooler/anchor compartment with a snake. Sounds like it might be clogged.
If it's still wet , West Marine has a epoxy that still works wet.
I'll see if I can come up with a part number for you.

[ColoradoDiablo]

See what you think about this.

[ColoradoDiablo]

I haven't used it , but it has very good reviews in most of the boating world.

[ColoradoDiablo]

From what I have found........ drill a 1/16"-1/8" hole every 6" on a grid pattern and inject the substrate.
When your done , fill the remaining hole from the injection process with Marine Tex , sand , reinstall carpet , or go cool and do SeaDeck on top.

[gahooligan]

The anchor compartment and cooler do not have drains. The bottom of the anchor compartment is the carpet that runs underneath The bow floor. Hole in the bottom of the front compartment or cooler as I call it does not have a drain tube it simply has a hole with a grommet to make it look nice that drains directly onto the carpet that runs under the bow floor. There is no room for a tube to ever have been hooked to it. That epoxy looks promising my floor however is the knurled fiberglass it never had carpet in it so I would have to patch the holes with marine Tex. That apoxie will definitely be the tickets 4 gluing in new wood reinforcement strips at the step down I managed to dig out about 3 to 4 inches of the rotten stuff so hopefully once epoxy it all back together it will give it enough strength at the step. Injecting the other epoxy seems like the ticket if it would stop the wood from rotting or at least take its place I guess. I am wondering will I actually be able to inject it in the wet wood.

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