jrttoday
Lieutenant Junior Grade
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me too, and I was imagining the worst. Except for the underside surface of the aft couple inches, the foam is totally dry and hard. Was also very stuck to the hull!!! The reason I skinned back 14" of decking is because of core samples drilled as far as 10" yielded wet wood in 1 place. Piece of wood? up against sump ps (left side as you look haha), I really have no idea why I didn't glass that, but it stops just short of encapsulated 2x4. And it's practically the same on starboard side, just not as thick.I've seen worse ...
Does the rest of the foam seem dry ?
And I "plan" on making one gusset 2" thick and twelve inches out to keel. Will re-use that 1/2" transom reinforcement wood for decking; after I cram foam back in.
I have a couple sheets leftover of 2" styrofoam and also plan on making some sort of box for added floatation. Will see how/where that works out.
In other news, my Dewalt died, again. I'm not a big fan of Dewalt, but... About the only thing I didn't like with the $30 Porter Cable was the 11,000 no load rpms. Bought the next one up, $42 w/tax, 7.5amp 10,000rpm. The only thing that I don't like so far is it's length. Maybe I'm too picky? :lol: