I'm in the process of doing some repairs on my '83 Ericson 30+. There is a small plywood bulkhead that is at the forward end of the V-berth, just under the anchor chain pan. It has extensive water damage with the part of the top cross piece and part of the starboard vertical section rotted through. The plywood is tabbed in place. This is structural and not cosmetic - you can't see it until you take the boat apart. Wish I had an actual pic but the piece is trapezoidal with the longest segment along the top and a trapezoidal hole in the middle so that the wood is about 3" from outer to inner margin all around. It looks like the drawing below.
Question is about the merits of taking the whole piece of wood out and rebuilding vs. cutting out the rotted section and replacing the segments then epoxying/glassing the new pieces to the old pieces when I tab them in. This would make the job substantially easier as it won't be easy to get to the lower edges of the bulkhead.
Plan is to bed the piece with an epoxy fillet and then use two layers of biaxial on each side to glass in. If I do this as a repair, would use more biaxial and epoxy to tie the new pieces to the old.
Interested in people thoughts.
Mike
Question is about the merits of taking the whole piece of wood out and rebuilding vs. cutting out the rotted section and replacing the segments then epoxying/glassing the new pieces to the old pieces when I tab them in. This would make the job substantially easier as it won't be easy to get to the lower edges of the bulkhead.
Plan is to bed the piece with an epoxy fillet and then use two layers of biaxial on each side to glass in. If I do this as a repair, would use more biaxial and epoxy to tie the new pieces to the old.
Interested in people thoughts.
Mike