Deck Help

[TheSpecialist]

Anyone local to Abington with deck experience, could pop by one day so we could bounce some ideas, and maybe you could share some expertise or give me some guidance??

[likwid]

What are you doing to the deck?

[TheSpecialist]

Either glassing in what I cut out, and raising the deck under the footprint of the leaning post to fit the fuel fill on the new tank, or cutting the whole deck out and raising the whole thing. I want to go the easiest, least expensive, or practical route as I plan on getting a new boat in 3-5 years,...

[likwid]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Either glassing in what I cut out, and raising the deck under the footprint of the leaning post to fit the fuel fill on the new tank, or cutting the whole deck out and raising the whole thing. I want to go the easiest, least expensive, or practical route as I plan on getting a new boat in 3-5 years,...

Cut the top skin off in sections, replace rotted plywood or end grain balsa core with epoxy impregnated plywood. Bed with epoxy + fibers and put coarse thread screws through plywood and inner skin to pull together and let dry then remove screws, fill holes, attach deck back on with 3" wide strips of glass after filling in the gap.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

[thefishingfreak]

Where is the boat?
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ohh nevermind just read Abington

you could cut the old deck out leaving a few inches around the rim to screw the new deck down to. Bc exterior plywood glued down with plyobond polyeurethane and then either just paint the plywood or glass over and roll out paint over that. It will be alot of crap work to grind all that old rotted wood off the old skin trying to save it. And your chancing your new wood core will stick to the underside(ask Christian how long his only lasted) only to save what? The old look of the deck?
Rip it out, new wood, paint, or glass&paint over it.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by thefishingfreak

Where is the boat?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
ohh nevermind just read Abington

you could cut the old deck out leaving a few inches around the rim to screw the new deck down to. Bc exterior plywood glued down with plyobond polyeurethane and then either just paint the plywood or glass over and roll out paint over that. It will be alot of crap work to grind all that old rotted wood off the old skin trying to save it. And your chancing your new wood core will stick to the underside(ask Christian how long his only lasted) only to save what? The old look of the deck?
Rip it out, new wood, paint, or glass&paint over it.

Makos were done with end grain balsa.
Most of it falls apart and hitting it with a random orbit with 80 grit makes it disappear quickly.