inovermyhead
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My kid and I picked up this boat for a song - decent trailer, 2 working 60HP Evinrudes and a 75HP Johnson with a bad lower, for less than $500.
The deck was rotten, as I'd suspected. After we ripped it out, I wanted to check the stringers for rot. I drilled down through the top of one of them, and out came some rotted wood. But the funny thing was that the drill basically fell into air after about 1/2". After looking closer, there is a 1/2" strip of wood running along the top of each stringer, just under the glass, and nothing but air underneath.
Was this type of hollow stringer construction ever used? The deck was about 66" wide at its widest, and there are 5 stringers with about 8" between them. The tallest is the center stringer, a little less than 4" from top to hull. The two outer ones are less than 2" tall, and the inboard ones about 3". All of them appear to be hollow except for a thin strip of wood at the top, which I'm guessing was for attaching the deck.
The good news is that I drilled the transom in 8 different places and only got dry wood shavings.
Do these stringers need to be replaced? I can't think of how I'd do it.
And how in the world would I reattach a new deck? Would it just 'float' over the stringers and be glassed to the sides?
The deck was rotten, as I'd suspected. After we ripped it out, I wanted to check the stringers for rot. I drilled down through the top of one of them, and out came some rotted wood. But the funny thing was that the drill basically fell into air after about 1/2". After looking closer, there is a 1/2" strip of wood running along the top of each stringer, just under the glass, and nothing but air underneath.
Was this type of hollow stringer construction ever used? The deck was about 66" wide at its widest, and there are 5 stringers with about 8" between them. The tallest is the center stringer, a little less than 4" from top to hull. The two outer ones are less than 2" tall, and the inboard ones about 3". All of them appear to be hollow except for a thin strip of wood at the top, which I'm guessing was for attaching the deck.
The good news is that I drilled the transom in 8 different places and only got dry wood shavings.
Do these stringers need to be replaced? I can't think of how I'd do it.
And how in the world would I reattach a new deck? Would it just 'float' over the stringers and be glassed to the sides?
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