erikgreen
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Hey all -
I just thought I'd post a warning here on something I discovered as part of my winter refit work.
I have a 1983 Sea Ray SRV210, and I'm getting ready to put a new interior in (along with a new doghouse). As part of that I took the carpet out this week.
I had to clean out and replace every single plug in the holes that sea ray used to inject the floatation foam under the deck (about 20 holes). Whatever substance they used hardened to a rock like texture and turned black, and over the 25 years since it was built it shrank. So each and every hole could leak water below decks and into the foam/stringers/etc. The only thing on top of this plug material was the carpet... no glass or anything.
They also used the same stuff to seal the deck/hull join at the edge... that was a thinner layer than the plugs, so it mostly cracked and now comes out with a brush, letting potentially more water in.
I replaced all the plugs and edging with a cabosil/microbubble putty and I'm going to patch over each hole with a square of fiberglass and fillet the edge too.
Fortunately my boat had been well kept and covered, and I found a minimum of moisture in the foam cores I took (just a little water toward the top).
If you have a sea ray that's anything like as old as mine, you probably will want to check those plugs to make sure they're still tight, or else you'll be pulling out foam and replacing stringers at some point, not to mention you'll be carrying extra weight.
Erik
Hey all -
I just thought I'd post a warning here on something I discovered as part of my winter refit work.
I have a 1983 Sea Ray SRV210, and I'm getting ready to put a new interior in (along with a new doghouse). As part of that I took the carpet out this week.
I had to clean out and replace every single plug in the holes that sea ray used to inject the floatation foam under the deck (about 20 holes). Whatever substance they used hardened to a rock like texture and turned black, and over the 25 years since it was built it shrank. So each and every hole could leak water below decks and into the foam/stringers/etc. The only thing on top of this plug material was the carpet... no glass or anything.
They also used the same stuff to seal the deck/hull join at the edge... that was a thinner layer than the plugs, so it mostly cracked and now comes out with a brush, letting potentially more water in.
I replaced all the plugs and edging with a cabosil/microbubble putty and I'm going to patch over each hole with a square of fiberglass and fillet the edge too.
Fortunately my boat had been well kept and covered, and I found a minimum of moisture in the foam cores I took (just a little water toward the top).
If you have a sea ray that's anything like as old as mine, you probably will want to check those plugs to make sure they're still tight, or else you'll be pulling out foam and replacing stringers at some point, not to mention you'll be carrying extra weight.
Erik
