On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:31:36 -0000, "Jim"
wrote:

Hello,

Please could anyone advise me: I've got a 15ft fibre glass boat with wooden
floor the floor has some fibre glass resin at the sides presumably to fix it
in place.

My problem is the floor is rotten! I also need to get under it to see if
theres any damage to the bottom of the boat underneath.

Can you please advise me if I should lift this old ply floor or perhaps seal
it and put another layer of ply and also if there should be many holes in
it?!?!?!?

When you say "hole in the floor" is there a space between the floor
and the outer hull? In other words, is the floor placed on a stringer
system of some sort or is it layed on some sort of core?

I'm going to assume that the "floor" of the boat is actually part of
the hull because of it's size. If it is a balsa or foam cored boat,
then you might have a problem - the balsa/foam is part of the
construction and can't be replaced as such - you might as well build a
new boat. The only reason I say this is because I've had a couple of
14/15 foot Crestliners here along with a couple of MFGs, etc. that I
removed some antique outboards from. All the boats were built with
this balsa and/or foam core construction when I cut them up for
disposal and every single one of them had a rotten floor.

Finally, If your floor is soft, it's a pretty good bet that the
transom is probably soft also. I'd check that.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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