My 299,s subfloor is wet and rotted and I,m finding that the wood inside the stringers is black and soft. Can anyone recommend a good repair method. I also see what looks like concrete in the main bulkhead stringer, under the bulkhead itself. Does that sound right? While removing the bathroom cabinets, I also noticed a bundle of wiring running down the shower wall and throught the shower pan. I,m guessing someone did some wall work and forgot to run the wiring between the bathroom wall and the main bulkhead.
Has anyone replaced their own stringers
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Castaway, there are several questions
that you need to answer for yourself. 1. Where is the water coming from that has the floor wet? 2. If the wire bundle goes through the shower pan.... where does the shower water go? 3. Can you remove the stringers one at a time, dig out the rotten wood replace it with black locust and reinstall the stringer with glass and resin? 4. If the boat was built with concrete in some places and it has endured this long it is probably alright. 5. As to the wiring, I like mine accessable, not requiring me to dismantle the boat to make repairs.
that you need to answer for yourself. 1. Where is the water coming from that has the floor wet? 2. If the wire bundle goes through the shower pan.... where does the shower water go? 3. Can you remove the stringers one at a time, dig out the rotten wood replace it with black locust and reinstall the stringer with glass and resin? 4. If the boat was built with concrete in some places and it has endured this long it is probably alright. 5. As to the wiring, I like mine accessable, not requiring me to dismantle the boat to make repairs.
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Castaway: I have been where you are.....BUT...my problems started with the fact that the bulkhead and the Mast Post did not sit on the stringer....thus a mild collapse of the deck....We removed the shower pan and the cabinet plus the head and put in a new stringer made by screwing together two 2x6's and shaping them to the hull.....then encapsulating them with glass, and glassing this structure to the hull....we used a block of rosewood to sit on top of the new stringer and then put the whole mess together again....My thought is that the concrete was used rather than a new stringer...if you were not the orig owner I would almost bet on it....how long it has been there or how long it will last is anyones guess....it would bother me....I cannot see concrete flexing along with the hull.... A few years later the sub floor, along with the faux teak and holly plywood cover rotted out...one day we just put a foot through it... I took a 4x8 ft sheet of marine grade(Brunzeel) plywood..Cut it to fit the hull and installed teak battens over the whole thing cutting hatches in the boards also....It would be very difficult to explain the entire operation....but it did work....the wood was rotton in the stringers, but we determined it was strong enough without the wood inside....must have been, because was sailed and raced the boat without inciden after doing the rebuild from l998 to 2005.....8 seasons with no problems... Hope this is of some help to you...
Castaway: I have been where you are.....BUT...my problems started with the fact that the bulkhead and the Mast Post did not sit on the stringer....thus a mild collapse of the deck....We removed the shower pan and the cabinet plus the head and put in a new stringer made by screwing together two 2x6's and shaping them to the hull.....then encapsulating them with glass, and glassing this structure to the hull....we used a block of rosewood to sit on top of the new stringer and then put the whole mess together again....My thought is that the concrete was used rather than a new stringer...if you were not the orig owner I would almost bet on it....how long it has been there or how long it will last is anyones guess....it would bother me....I cannot see concrete flexing along with the hull.... A few years later the sub floor, along with the faux teak and holly plywood cover rotted out...one day we just put a foot through it... I took a 4x8 ft sheet of marine grade(Brunzeel) plywood..Cut it to fit the hull and installed teak battens over the whole thing cutting hatches in the boards also....It would be very difficult to explain the entire operation....but it did work....the wood was rotton in the stringers, but we determined it was strong enough without the wood inside....must have been, because was sailed and raced the boat without inciden after doing the rebuild from l998 to 2005.....8 seasons with no problems... Hope this is of some help to you...
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