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More core and old foam repair have been removed, exposing the original shoddy fiberglass repair, which now has four new layers of fiberglass underneath it.
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New balsa core in place. Because the fiberglass under the core is now so much thinker, I had to sand down the bottom of the new core so that it would fit the coutour of the patch.
Five more layers of 1708 and epoxy resin and fiberglass repair is finished.
Here I've removed the original fiberglass patch and sanded down to the epoxy layers I laid from the bottom. The area has been painted with epoxy resin in preparation for new layers of fiberglass to go on top. Also note at this point I pulled the entire floor up because I found unacceptably high moisture readings everywhere. The remainder of the balsa core appeared sound and didn't feel wet. After just 24 hours the moisture meter read 0% moisture everywhere.
More core and old foam repair have been removed, exposing the original shoddy fiberglass repair, which now has four new layers of fiberglass underneath it.
After I removed some wet rotted balsa core I discovered they had actually removed some of the damaged core and squirted in some of that expanding foam insulation to "repair" the damage! (Note that I had to remove some of the cabin bulwark to give access to the repair area.)
Sure enough I found wet rotted core directly above the patch on the hull. Whoever did the repair just fiberglassed over core damage and called it good!
I wasn't comfortable with what might be on the other side of that patch in the hull so that area will be opened up and removed. I also went over the floor with a moisture meter.
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More core and old foam repair have been removed, exposing the original shoddy fiberglass repair, which now has four new layers of fiberglass underneath it.

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More core and old foam repair have been removed, exposing the original shoddy fiberglass repair, which now has four new layers of fiberglass underneath it.
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There was a painted section on the bottom of the hull that appeared "flat" - meaning it didn't follow the contour of the surrounding fiberglass. It just looked like a shoddy repair to me and I couldn't live with that.
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