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Spent the day cutting holes in my DS1 to get at the seat and bow foams. I ended up using a little grinding tool from my Dremel which made the cutting easy. I need to expand the hole a bit to fit the frame for the inspection port, but that's tomorrow's project.

Wow that foam needed replacing. It was easily 70-100lbs of saturated foam bricks. This explains much of my difficulty with the DS1 up to now. It's just so much easier to move around, lift up, anything you'd want to do. I definitely should have started with this task, then done everything else.

I'll order the pool noodles before sailing season starts. Pretty close to painting time! I can't quite fathom doing any more sanding or what good it would do.

I went online, not sure if it was amazon and purchased swimways noodles, they were blems, different lengths and flat spots so much less, a box of 35 was $53.00. going to get a 2nd box to do mine.

Saw this listing, great price per noodle...but very few details.

https://www.bargainw.com/wholesale-prod ... odles.html

Not sure if I'll roll the dice but thinking about it.

Got the inspection ports fitted today. Easy! Still can't believe how much dead weight I pulled out of this thing.

The best price I found was 95 cents at the Dollar Store. I bought about 50 of them. I stuff them in without removing any of the original foam. My foam was dry.

Even stuff some of them in the mast to prevent turtling. Not sure if it prevents turtling but it can't hurt.

If I needed more I would take my chances and buy a box from the site you found. Excellent price.

John

beats what i paid.