I'd go for 3)
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Martin-Paul Broennimann
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Hey,
Thanks to the group for advice on my last post about my propane sniffer
meltdown. Sniffer is now replaced, remounted, rewired (with fuse.)
On to the next project: My 1978 Catalina 30 has a painted wood battery
tray which is basically crumbling with wet rot.
The way I figure it, I can either:
1) Use the drill and fill method to saturate it with epoxy and maybe
glass over it.
Pros: pretty easy
Cons: I'll never get the "wood" (more like wood-chowder at this point)
dry, it will eventually just rot again
2) Build a new battery tray out of Starboard
Pros: easy to build, rot/corrosion/proof
Cons: old wood is bonded to raised fiberglass area on the bottom of the
hull. would need to rip that out and figure out a way to fasten the
Starboard to the fiberglass (maybe SS bolts epoxied in place?) Plus
Starboard is expensive. (But I've already got a big sheet of it laying
around, so not a big deal.
3) Build a new battery tray out of epoxy coated marine ply
Pros: Will bond nicely to the fiberglass. With proper care, I can make
it rotproof.
Cons: Bigger pain in the butt to assemble, coat, etc.
What do y'all think? Any other options?
- Ari