[Alberg30] Deck Coring

[C.B. Currier]

One of my boats Daybreak #458 has evidently had severe deck core rotting to
the point where It should be repaired(extreme spongieness/flexing of deck).
I have been evaluating this for the past year and have not really come up
with a decisive direction to move in. It is a shame since the actual
majority of the deck looks good. I mean - the deck flexes on the foredeck
appreciably and in the stern. No flex on top of the cabin or along the rail
port & starboard.

I know that the two options really open to me are as follows:

1. drill, rout, fill w/epoxy-microfibers compound all over the place

2. Cut off the deck secion by section, put new core (foam: which type ?)
epoxy in, glass over - apply noskid

the Question:
    is #1 a good reliable cheap way of doing this repair, regardless of the
issue of leaving the old rotten remains of the core ? Has any one done this
job lets say in the past ten years and had poor results? How about good
results?

    If I go with # 2 which foam and glass should I use, how thick? I am
already resolved to using MAAS epoxy so the other details are more important
to me.

Thanks for any input you have.

C.B. Currier
Infinity #57
Daybreak #458
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