Ok, so I picked up a 1975 glasply 2300 to fix up... thing was rough, and as I tore into it, even rougher... i could just scrap it, but I like a project, so im gonna just overhaul it as a long term project.
I pulled up the deck a started chasing rot. And all the stringers are rotted all the way up. Ill be replacing them with laminated honeycomb panels.
My questions come to the design of the bilge, though... since i am redoing it all, i can make adjustments, and I was confused by how it was set up... at the entrance to the cuddy, you step down from the main deck heigh to a lower floor. Ahead of the small square recess is the head. There is a drain hole in the floor.
One of the main sources of rot in this boat was from leaking window seals, which were leaking into the cuddy. As I chased the rot, I cut out the floor there and was surprised that there was no drain hole in the bilge from this front second back to the rear of the boat. Of course the wood had rotted at the crossmemeber, but there was enough fiberglass on the port side that water was still sitting there, while the starboard side had drained through the rotted wood.... so what is the point in putting a drain into the flood to a space that could never evacuate the water? Did they just forget to install the drains in the crossmemeber? Or is there some reason that I am not comprehending, to keep this areas separate from the rear second of the bilge?
Anyway, my plan is to basically build with the supports in the same places, but to add drainage, like the rear crossmember has.
there a more elegant solution?
I pulled up the deck a started chasing rot. And all the stringers are rotted all the way up. Ill be replacing them with laminated honeycomb panels.
My questions come to the design of the bilge, though... since i am redoing it all, i can make adjustments, and I was confused by how it was set up... at the entrance to the cuddy, you step down from the main deck heigh to a lower floor. Ahead of the small square recess is the head. There is a drain hole in the floor.
One of the main sources of rot in this boat was from leaking window seals, which were leaking into the cuddy. As I chased the rot, I cut out the floor there and was surprised that there was no drain hole in the bilge from this front second back to the rear of the boat. Of course the wood had rotted at the crossmemeber, but there was enough fiberglass on the port side that water was still sitting there, while the starboard side had drained through the rotted wood.... so what is the point in putting a drain into the flood to a space that could never evacuate the water? Did they just forget to install the drains in the crossmemeber? Or is there some reason that I am not comprehending, to keep this areas separate from the rear second of the bilge?
Anyway, my plan is to basically build with the supports in the same places, but to add drainage, like the rear crossmember has.
there a more elegant solution?
