This is a 1999 Regal XR2 jetboat. This is a long one, so please bear with me!
I was out waxing my boat up and getting it ready to go to the marina yesterday, when I noticed a potentially serious problem. I pulled up the carpet in the storage compartment in the floor, where you can store skis etc. and noticed that water sat in there over the past winter. The whole fiberglass lining inside the compartment was cracked apart, probably from freezing so many times over the past 6 months. The wood is completely water-logged underneath the compartment from seeping through the cracks in the FG.
The compartment has holes that I'm guessing run throughout the boat as a single drainage track. From the holes in the cup holders to the storage compartment to the engine compartment comparment to the plug holes.
I just found out that my brother had it out last summer and backed it in with the plugs out. He then parked it and left the plugs in! I found standing water in the compartment last summer (he told me a wave came over the back of the boat). I dumped it, sopped up the water with towels, sprayed to kill any mold and had a fan on it for a week to dry it out. I thought that I got the water out, but didn't recognize the severity of the situation.
Now, back to present. Yesterday, after we found there was still water, we then tipped the boat as much as we could and there were gallons of water that poured out of the plug holes. Next, we pulled up as much of the cracked fiberglass in the compartment that we could to expose the wood. I then used a shopvac to suck out another gallon of water or so, and now have a powerful fan sitting in the compartment to dry it out.
I guess my question is: Does anyone know if the whole wood frame inside the hull would be separated from this compartment via it's own layer of fiberglass? Or, is it possible that the frame also is waterlogged? I don't even know where to start with this one and am not sure what kind of damage could have been done already. I'm guessing that if there is cracked fiberglass where I can see it, there might be more where I can't. I feel sick just thinking about it!
Any suggestions would be very helpful.
I can also email 7.1 mp pictures if someone would like to see the compartment.
Thanks,
Seth
I was out waxing my boat up and getting it ready to go to the marina yesterday, when I noticed a potentially serious problem. I pulled up the carpet in the storage compartment in the floor, where you can store skis etc. and noticed that water sat in there over the past winter. The whole fiberglass lining inside the compartment was cracked apart, probably from freezing so many times over the past 6 months. The wood is completely water-logged underneath the compartment from seeping through the cracks in the FG.
The compartment has holes that I'm guessing run throughout the boat as a single drainage track. From the holes in the cup holders to the storage compartment to the engine compartment comparment to the plug holes.
I just found out that my brother had it out last summer and backed it in with the plugs out. He then parked it and left the plugs in! I found standing water in the compartment last summer (he told me a wave came over the back of the boat). I dumped it, sopped up the water with towels, sprayed to kill any mold and had a fan on it for a week to dry it out. I thought that I got the water out, but didn't recognize the severity of the situation.
Now, back to present. Yesterday, after we found there was still water, we then tipped the boat as much as we could and there were gallons of water that poured out of the plug holes. Next, we pulled up as much of the cracked fiberglass in the compartment that we could to expose the wood. I then used a shopvac to suck out another gallon of water or so, and now have a powerful fan sitting in the compartment to dry it out.
I guess my question is: Does anyone know if the whole wood frame inside the hull would be separated from this compartment via it's own layer of fiberglass? Or, is it possible that the frame also is waterlogged? I don't even know where to start with this one and am not sure what kind of damage could have been done already. I'm guessing that if there is cracked fiberglass where I can see it, there might be more where I can't. I feel sick just thinking about it!
Any suggestions would be very helpful.
I can also email 7.1 mp pictures if someone would like to see the compartment.
Thanks,
Seth
