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Be forewarned if the floor has soft spots the transom is most likely due for repairs also. You dont have to use a hammer -your knuckle or a coin will doyou want a good solid sound.
If your boat is all fibreglass screw or bolt and resin the stringers back down sand and clean the whole soft area and glass it up with a good quality woven mat remove the screws and fill the holes with glass fibre and resin.
Repair boat deck soft spots. So in case anyone is interested this is what I did to repair two rather big soft spots on my deck on each side where one mostly sits. Put masking tape on the whole area and mark the area. Drill small holes about two to three inches apart in the whole area just through the top-layer of course.
Most people who fix the weak and soft spots of their boat on their own should buy their supplies early enough so that they are on hand when needed. In the case that you want to fix the boat on your own but you havent done it before you should go to a marine supplies store or a well equipped local hardware store and buy the necessary supplies such as gel coat fillers and repair kits for minor spots. Ive had excellent luck using a drill and fill technique for soft decks on my 1974 Catalina 22.
Its important to dry the deck core completely first- I was lucky and mine was already dried out. Ive heard you can dry it out with many small holes and displace some of the water with a. If your boat is all fibreglass screw or bolt and resin the stringers back down sand and clean the whole soft area and glass it up with a good quality woven mat remove the screws and fill the holes with glass fibre and resin.
The last survey noted that deck repairs were the main issue and there are quite a few soft areas spongy under feet. However there is no woodbalsa core. It is just fiberglass from what i can see on the inside of the cabin Ive removed the teak liners.
And it appears to be just solid fiberglass. Soft Deck Repair Purchase a can of non expanding aersol foam insulationHome Depot. Drill 18 or so holes in the deck or up from the bottom depending on what you can get at.
Drill the holes at the outside of the solf area and a few holes towards the center to act as vents. To fix soft spots with either Gorilla Glue or Foam Sealer you can follow these simple steps. First locate the soft spot and find its outer edges.
You can trace it out with a pencil if you wish. If you have multiple spots just trace them all out at one time. Second drill holes using a drill no larger than a pencil.
Soft spot Repair or Whole floor. Aruaco Plywood is good stuff. 12 should be fine for the deck.
If your stingers are bad 34 Transom use a 38 drill and do NOT drill all the way thru. From the inside drill down down low in several places about 1 deep use masking tape on. Repairing the Soft Spot in Your Boat Floor.
If the problem is due to fiberglass weakening youll want to sand the affected area until the soft spot is noticeably lower than the surrounding area. In fact in certain spots you might sand all the way through the fiberglass. Boats rot from the inside out and the bottom up so by the time the deck shows signs of rot even just a little there is much more below deck.
Any boat with a soft spot on the deck should be considered a project boat and will take considerable time and money in addition to the purchase price before it can be considered seaworthy. 1 year away from possible new or nearly new boat. Currently I have an old 22 center console bay boat with a fiberglass over plywood floor that is cracking and has soft spots.
This boat doesnt have much if any value. But it does have a good hull and runs great. Boat floor is fiberglass front and rear decks are carpeted over fiberglass.
Injectadeck is a carefully engineered structural marine foam that cures hard as wood filling voids quickly and easily repairing soft spots. Injectadeck repairs and seals your boats deck stringer gunwhale flying bridge cabin top and around structure and hardware. Repairing a Soft Sailboat Deck - YouTube.
Repairing a soft spot in a fiberglass deck is both a monstrous dance with reciprocating saws and grinders that cut into your boat and a precise ballet of blending chemicals cutting materials and applying them to the wound to produce a finished product barely distinguishable from the original. What you are looking for is rotted plywood under the fiberglassit can be fixed but can be a pain to split the boat into 2 pieces. You dont have to use a hammer -your knuckle or a coin will doyou want a good solid sound.
Be forewarned if the floor has soft spots the transom is most likely due for repairs also. Repair your boat deck with AeroMarine Products 8 pour foam and 30021 epoxy resin. For more information and to order products please contact us at wwwae.
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East of Houston TX. Injectadeck is a carefully engineered structural marine foam and adhesive that cures hard as wood quickly and easily repairing soft spots on your boats fiberglass deck. Soft deck areas are due to the rot of the underlying core.
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