Rotted Wood!

[spin-a-bait]

I just bought a '91 Javelin 389TE w/150 Johnson.The boat looks like new.After we took the boat for a test drive we took the boat home and I was thinking about moving the Hot Foot further back but before I did I wanted to make sure it was nessary so I was pushing the pedal down and some how the whole pedal ripped out of the floor.So I looked at the owners manual and it said that the boat has wood in it.What would be a good way to fix this rotted wood?Should I just get a new floor put in?How much would that cost?

 

[ob1jeeper]

Re: Rotted Wood!

Without seeing how bad it is, (usually most wood rot is not a good thing...) it is hard to give you a definative response.<br /><br />However, that said, rotted wood HAS to (or at least SHOULD) be replaced/repaired, as it is one of the KEY structural items making up your hull.<br /><br />Should you choose to NOT go with wood, there is a product I've seen called "sea-cast" (I think that's the name), which is an epoxy material, which you buy in either 3 or 5 gal bucket sized cans. You mix up sort of like cement, then pour into either the voids you have created by removing the rotted wood, or forms you have made...<br /><br />It is advertized as being stronger than wood, and just as importantly, won't rot again...<br /><br />Good Luck, Obiwan