My wife and I recently purchased a 1980 Ericson 25+ and now it’s time for the work to start. The boat’s in decent shape for its age, but the main concern is the compression post base. The block supporting the hull liner directly under the compression post is rotten and needs to be replaced. I've done a few searches and come up with a few posts warning about the possibility
My plan:
My plan:
- Loosen the rig
- Jack the cabin top up (not sure what to use for this)
- Shim the hull liner up on either side of the block to push the liner against bottom of the compression post and take the rest of the weight off of the block.
- Cut the block out and clean up the old tabbing
- Create a template of hull
- Create a new hardwood block with the template
- Seal the block
- Apply thickened epoxy to the hull and bottom of the hull liner and install the block
- Remove shims and jack