I've been working on my 23' Marquis.

It was a slow day in the shop and I could almost tell it would be so I
took my ford 8N out to the machine shed and hooked up to the Marquis
and pulled it out front where I'd have easier accessibility to it, and
began to attack the wood rot right in front of the engine. There's a
cross piece that's heavily damaged, The plywood floor is OK, but this
cross piece is mush. The stringers are fine, so I got out the small
electric chain saw and went to work on the cross piece I was very
careful not to even nick the fiberglass hull. When I got the most of
it removed I chipped away the rest at the bottom with a wood chisel,
measured the distance between the stringers and cut out a nice piece
of salt-treated pine just wide enough to fit snug then angled the base
of it so it would fit the curve of the hull, cut a generous drain
notch into the board and with some angle iron, large washers and
carriage bolts I drilled through the stringers and pine board to
secure. Then I cut another board to fill just underneath the floor and
angle ironed it too. Tomorrow I'll flop the resin epoxy to the
stringers and necessary hardware.

I feel the bracing is pretty good and has increased the integrity of
the hull with the cross member repaired.

I felt that made a better day than doing little if anything in the
shop, or watching the feuding in here.....

?;^ )