Thanks for the many posts and discussion about this topic. As a result we
have chosen to remove and replace with new wood glued and screwed in place.

We will save the wood restoration idea for planks and very small non
stressful areas.

Again....thanks for the many great ideas,

Marshall



"ahoy" wrote in message
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So does adding wood flour or sawdust as a thickener improve the
bending strength for something like this? I've been wetting some hatch
sliders out for saturation and then building up the gone places with
flour/epoxy. It also seems to blend in better cosmetically. The splash
boards look like too complicated a carpentry job for me. Oh, and
please keep up the petty bickering,..

On 10 Oct 2005 09:01:04 -0700, wrote:

Hi

It is better to cut away more than just the rotten wood, so a new piece
glued with Epoxy will carry the loads ------- even with a bad fit it is
better to replace the bad wood with new and _then use the Epoxy to what
it is perfect for, as glue. What's so good about Epoxy is just that
even a bad fit don't matter that much as with other glues ,in fact I
think, it is often better to replace the rotten wood with Epoxy rather
than even thinking about using it as reinforcement for epoxy. With spot
repairs it is also better to have a hand router with a copy ring and a
few standard patches that fit with the router template.
Use Epoxy like that and the repairs will last longer than the boat.