Ok that's easy enough. Looks like the PO actually did tab in new transom as I can see fiberglass/epoxy rising up about 4" high on transom before it turns to just wood.
Sigh...in other news...the more I work on this old boat it seems like the further it gets from being done. I was exploring those "channels" that I pictured in my last post. One of them I was able to remove all the old glass/epoxy that was peeling off (why does it peel off and separate like that? is it because of whatever the grey stuff is that PO used? bondo? or I think you might've said it was a polyester resin?) and can just be re-filled like you said with laminate patches.
But the other one....there was a small hole through the
floor laminate that went straight through to the thin cavity between
floor and hull, and when I started poking around in that hole I found a lot of dry rot, similar to what I'd found in a spot on the transom last year. I haven't finished multitool'ing/grinding out all the rot, but it looks to be about a 1' x 1' piece once all is done.
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Here's a video of me pulling around on it and so on...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H7wVdr ... sp=sharingAnyways, so I'm guessing I need to laminate a new piece of plywood (1/4"?) and glue it in there, beveling the edges onto the existing good
floor. As seen in the above pic, the PO has that grey bondo/polyester resin stuff where the
floor meets the curve of the hull at the top of the picture...and while I feel less than confident about the longetivity of that stuff, I'm starting to run out of gas/funds to keep this project going. I'd really hoped to sail this summer, but a combination of different factors, including my 1 year old undergoing chemo and spending one our of every three weeks in the hospital has seriously slowed things down.
While ripping up the dry rot in the
floor, I was really tempted to just keep pulling everything up, and some part of me knows there's tons of dry rot all over/and under the
floor, but at this point I'm pretty sure I'll just get defeated if I have to forestall sailing for another year.