Hello All,
I am new to the forum so please excuse if this has already been asked, I did not see anything in a quick search.
I purchased a boat last week knowing I would need to rip out part of the floor and put in a new one, what I didnt know what the extent of the damage. As you can see in the picture i ended up having to remove the whole floor. Here is where my question comes into play.
I do not know if this is a norm on all bass boats, but if you look at the floor on the inside where the hull meets the floor, you will see a nice 1 1\2 in lip where the hull was screwed to the floor via the factory. The wood floor that was rotten actually extends about 2-4 inches depending on what spot you measure past that lip underneath and in between the outside and inside hull, once it meets the interior wall of the outside hull, it is attached with fiberglass.
Now, the wood has rotted, it was like pulling out mulch.. My question is, how would you go about resealing the resined marine plywood floor to the interior hull, so that water does not seap through?
Just screws alone would not water proof the lip to the floor, and I don't want to fiberglass to the interior hull as it would cause an ugly seam to the lip, but I have no way to get inside in between thr interior and exterior hull to refiberglass the floor as it was done factory.
Please excuse if I did not use proper terminology, as I am still fairly new to the boating world.
Also, I plan to strengthen the stringers in their weakspots by sandwhiching them with two boards before I refoam and install the plywood, any better ideas or ways of doing this would alsonbe appreciated.
I am new to the forum so please excuse if this has already been asked, I did not see anything in a quick search.
I purchased a boat last week knowing I would need to rip out part of the floor and put in a new one, what I didnt know what the extent of the damage. As you can see in the picture i ended up having to remove the whole floor. Here is where my question comes into play.
I do not know if this is a norm on all bass boats, but if you look at the floor on the inside where the hull meets the floor, you will see a nice 1 1\2 in lip where the hull was screwed to the floor via the factory. The wood floor that was rotten actually extends about 2-4 inches depending on what spot you measure past that lip underneath and in between the outside and inside hull, once it meets the interior wall of the outside hull, it is attached with fiberglass.
Now, the wood has rotted, it was like pulling out mulch.. My question is, how would you go about resealing the resined marine plywood floor to the interior hull, so that water does not seap through?
Just screws alone would not water proof the lip to the floor, and I don't want to fiberglass to the interior hull as it would cause an ugly seam to the lip, but I have no way to get inside in between thr interior and exterior hull to refiberglass the floor as it was done factory.
Please excuse if I did not use proper terminology, as I am still fairly new to the boating world.
Also, I plan to strengthen the stringers in their weakspots by sandwhiching them with two boards before I refoam and install the plywood, any better ideas or ways of doing this would alsonbe appreciated.