DrZiplock
Member II
Hey, folks
Just back from doing an Atlantic crossing with some friends and the drive to get my own projects started, wrapped, and Respira into the water is running hard.
To that end I began to tackle what I knew to be a soft spot in the deck. Because of all the work I'm doing on the interior it was figured that it would be easier to attack this problem from below rather than above. Test holes were drilled to find the good and the bad core and then work to remove began. So far I've ended up with what you see here..and I'm sure there is more to be found.
The entire section in the passageway between the main salon and the v-berth has now been cleaned out. The nice part is that it seems that this particular section was pretty isolated curtesy of a lip of fiberglass that runs all the way around it, so I cut and then cleaned out everything so that lip. Currently there is a fan blowing directly onto it. Some of the balsa was rotted out to the point of it no longer being ID'able as wood and then water could be squeezed out of other locations. Not great.
The on deck work to stop the intrusion is well underway with all deck hardware having been removed, holes overdrilled, and then refilled. We're going for dry or busy, friends.
The replacement itself will be fairly straightforward if not a bit of a pain in the ass because I'm working against gravity, but not much I can do about that at this point. Any tips or suggestions would of course be appreciated.
Here's something I didn't expect though:
While removing the headliner it became wildly clear that the core around the dorade vents was shot. So I cut out the glass to see what I'd be dealing with.
PLYWOOD?!
And you can see the drainage hole from the on deck box showing daylight through the "core." Awesome.
So who else has tackled this? Is the plywood just located under the dorade? I'm going to have to rip it all out and replace it, reglass, and then reglass the topside portion as well. And while I'm at it I'm going to fill in that weird "tool storage" whatever place in between the two vents.
Thoughts? Advice? Suggestions?
Just back from doing an Atlantic crossing with some friends and the drive to get my own projects started, wrapped, and Respira into the water is running hard.
To that end I began to tackle what I knew to be a soft spot in the deck. Because of all the work I'm doing on the interior it was figured that it would be easier to attack this problem from below rather than above. Test holes were drilled to find the good and the bad core and then work to remove began. So far I've ended up with what you see here..and I'm sure there is more to be found.
The entire section in the passageway between the main salon and the v-berth has now been cleaned out. The nice part is that it seems that this particular section was pretty isolated curtesy of a lip of fiberglass that runs all the way around it, so I cut and then cleaned out everything so that lip. Currently there is a fan blowing directly onto it. Some of the balsa was rotted out to the point of it no longer being ID'able as wood and then water could be squeezed out of other locations. Not great.
The on deck work to stop the intrusion is well underway with all deck hardware having been removed, holes overdrilled, and then refilled. We're going for dry or busy, friends.
The replacement itself will be fairly straightforward if not a bit of a pain in the ass because I'm working against gravity, but not much I can do about that at this point. Any tips or suggestions would of course be appreciated.
Here's something I didn't expect though:
While removing the headliner it became wildly clear that the core around the dorade vents was shot. So I cut out the glass to see what I'd be dealing with.
PLYWOOD?!
And you can see the drainage hole from the on deck box showing daylight through the "core." Awesome.
So who else has tackled this? Is the plywood just located under the dorade? I'm going to have to rip it all out and replace it, reglass, and then reglass the topside portion as well. And while I'm at it I'm going to fill in that weird "tool storage" whatever place in between the two vents.
Thoughts? Advice? Suggestions?