All right - you folks have all be very helpful in giving me great, on-target advice. I have a concern with the bilge area of my "new" 77' Hunter 25. The bilge area, in the middle of the cabin has a 2x4 (most likely a stringer) wood piece with exposed ends. The concern I have is the ends of the boards are black in color and still damp even though the bilge is dry. I am pretty sure the bilge had standing water for many months. It seems weird that exposed wood would be in the bilge area - where water is supposed to collect. I do not have a pic, but my fine art skills created a MS Paint drawing so you can see what I am getting at. I plan to sell the boat in about 8 months - it is on the trailer now. Any thoughts? Perhaps some git-rot and a warning to the next owner? Thanks!
Possible wood rot?
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Do the repair.....
Many of the production boat builders of the 70s had beams protruding into the keel area have a tendancy to rot from the inside out. The risk to you is that the beam will collapse and if supporting other structure may shift the position of the other structure - sometimes requiring 'great difficulty' to realign everything. A good surveyor will seek out such misalignment, ultimately find the rotted beam .... and you will either have to fix it then OR deduct a handsome sum from the sell price. Ive done such repairs (Pearsons) and if you are careful and accurate such repairs can go quickly. I simply used epoxy filled with chopped fibers and 'cast'/molded the piece, jacked up the beams, cut out the old bottom of the post, slid in the new and put in radiused tabbing to hold everything in place - perfect reapirs that matched the original construction and were never even questioned by surveyors. hope this helps
Many of the production boat builders of the 70s had beams protruding into the keel area have a tendancy to rot from the inside out. The risk to you is that the beam will collapse and if supporting other structure may shift the position of the other structure - sometimes requiring 'great difficulty' to realign everything. A good surveyor will seek out such misalignment, ultimately find the rotted beam .... and you will either have to fix it then OR deduct a handsome sum from the sell price. Ive done such repairs (Pearsons) and if you are careful and accurate such repairs can go quickly. I simply used epoxy filled with chopped fibers and 'cast'/molded the piece, jacked up the beams, cut out the old bottom of the post, slid in the new and put in radiused tabbing to hold everything in place - perfect reapirs that matched the original construction and were never even questioned by surveyors. hope this helps
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