Today is News(Good | Bad) day.
Got the port side bench all sanded down and faired in. When all edges are ready, i will glue those in. At least i can sit on the benches without glass bits running me through.
Starting on the floor. Starboard panel has been removed. That was a mess. The luran is just floating over the foam core. Where i glued the pucks down it was permanent. It took some agressive crow bar action to get all the luran off. Its easy here to see what it looks like when 4" pucks are cut off and glue is spread around. Check out the massive glue coverage versus the port side bench with tiny gorilla glue sqirts. The glued pucks took some foam with them as well. Seriously, if you need to fix delamination, cut five four inch pucks per square
foot, you will get 100% coverage. Still have 100% confidence in PL3X, but any 5200 would work great too.
With the luran off, i see there are more challenges ahead.
The deck between the centerboad and the mainsheet swivel is floating. I didnt support this area when i did the others since it felt more solid
. With the luran gone its obviously needing support.
Right next to the puck (very well attached here) is a block of plywood embedded in the foam. I suspect Hunter had that wood epoxied to the centerboard housing. The epoxy is still there, the pkywood delaminated. One layer of plywood is still attached to the luran, and some epoxy is on the sidewall. The core deck moves up and down about and inch each way. I could fix this with a foam piller, but my mind is going a mile a minute with ideas.
I wanted to leave the center foot stop since that area is clearly the strongest part of the boat, but...I think it would be a better repair to simply cut the whole deck off. Once the deck is rebuilt i could use the luran foot stop as a 2part foam mold. The area near the centerboard will be a bear. I may have to grind the luran off that area.
So I'm removing the mainsheet swival and the mast step. The pin for the swivel is bent, so ill make a stop by WM to get a replacement. I'm thinking, that mast step is going to need a philips extenstion since its on so tight and in a deep confined space. Nope, finger tight. The wood under the mast step is rotten, I could smell the moist wood as soon as I pulled the screws out. So all the luran on the deck is getting removed, including the central foot stop. I'm thinking I either get some thin plywood and bond it to the foam, or actually say f it, cut out the foam too and make a new foam floor with real foam stringers glassed in.
Its not too hard pulling the centerboard out.