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<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I know
that the two options really open to me are as follows:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1.
drill, rout, fill w/epoxy-microfibers compound all over the
place</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2. Cut
off the deck secion by section, put new core (foam: which type ?) epoxy in,
glass over - apply noskid</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>the
Question:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>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?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks
for any input you have.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>C.B.
Currier</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Infinity #57</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780373613-20062002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Daybreak #458</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>