Hey gang!
The blue non-skid sections on the cabin roof of my 1974 have some give in the skin. The white strip between them with the mast step is very hard and the area around the mast step is solid, but there is some "bowing" of the skin on the blue non-skid sections if I push or step on them. I can push the skin down a bit and then feel it resist against the core underneath. The core underneath feels solid when I push on it, and it seems to hold my weight OK.
A Catalina Direct forum post here says that the roof on a first-gen 1985 is marine ply with a skin that is not bonded directly to it, with space between. Surely some of you guys have drilled or cut into the cabin roof: what is there? Is the "bowing" skin in this spot an OK thing or a harbinger of certain doom?
Thanks!
The blue non-skid sections on the cabin roof of my 1974 have some give in the skin. The white strip between them with the mast step is very hard and the area around the mast step is solid, but there is some "bowing" of the skin on the blue non-skid sections if I push or step on them. I can push the skin down a bit and then feel it resist against the core underneath. The core underneath feels solid when I push on it, and it seems to hold my weight OK.
A Catalina Direct forum post here says that the roof on a first-gen 1985 is marine ply with a skin that is not bonded directly to it, with space between. Surely some of you guys have drilled or cut into the cabin roof: what is there? Is the "bowing" skin in this spot an OK thing or a harbinger of certain doom?
Thanks!