It's a model 1970 Southern Skimmer. Year unknown. Paperwork is put away. I redecked the middle of the boat, from 2' forward of the transom to the front edge of the CC. The foam in that are was dry to the hull. Problem is the bilge box was in a lot worse shape than I first thought. Split glass had allowed water in around the controls tube and back into the area behind the front piece of the bilge. I opened up the deck around the bilge box to find a lot of soaked foam around the bilge framework. Turns out the forward piece of the bilge box that runs from side to side,, gunnel to gunnel, stops water from draining to the subfloor drain. The piece I'm describing is fastened to the middle stringer and the next one to starboard. There is a drain screw under the deck, just above the hull line, in the transom that allows built up sub deck water a place to drain. So it looks to me like the designers at SS knew water could and probably would get below the main deck. The stringers are solid 2x6, competely coated in glass and are still solid. And they are radius notched periodically, it looks like to allow subdeck water to channel to the rear. But there is still about an 1" or less of soaked foam in this rear bilge area. The wet foam is on the bottom, the top 2/3 of it are dry. At what point should I just say enough. and put it back together, even with some residual water in the sub deck? The deck is thick, 2x6 stringers, and stuffed with foam approx 4" thick. It would have cost me a fortune to scrape the foam and go with new. The coast guard payload plate says 12 passengers, 1540 lbs payload, excluding engine. The thing is a tank. But that's exactly what I wanted for what I want to do with it. Input and thoughts are welcome. Thanks,Kevin
