Hello all,
I would like to share my disappointing story and get some of your thoughts. I bought this boat last year. When I bought it, I noticed the owner had replaced the cockpit seats with some after market back to back louge seats; none of the screws were bedded and none of the old seat holes were plugged. I knew I would have to re-core the mid birth ceiling where the seats sat on. I figured I could takle that easy enough. Well that changed today; the can of worms has been opened and the water from the ceiling leak has turned into stringer rot. I have dug out all of the rotted stringer so far and plan to scarf in new stringer and deck sections with half inch marine grade plywood. I am a little confused by the method Sea Ray used to splice the original stringer. They made a long taper joint in the stringer and used a butt block to connect the two, but the stringer terminates about 16 inches away at a bulkhead. I would like to glue in the new stringer at that termination and scarf in at the other end. Could I scarf in over Sea Ray's joint or should I just use Sea Ray's joint method to make the splice? A scarf would be about a 6 inch joint and a Sea Ray splice joint would be about 48 inches long with the the removal of another bulkhead.
I would like to share my disappointing story and get some of your thoughts. I bought this boat last year. When I bought it, I noticed the owner had replaced the cockpit seats with some after market back to back louge seats; none of the screws were bedded and none of the old seat holes were plugged. I knew I would have to re-core the mid birth ceiling where the seats sat on. I figured I could takle that easy enough. Well that changed today; the can of worms has been opened and the water from the ceiling leak has turned into stringer rot. I have dug out all of the rotted stringer so far and plan to scarf in new stringer and deck sections with half inch marine grade plywood. I am a little confused by the method Sea Ray used to splice the original stringer. They made a long taper joint in the stringer and used a butt block to connect the two, but the stringer terminates about 16 inches away at a bulkhead. I would like to glue in the new stringer at that termination and scarf in at the other end. Could I scarf in over Sea Ray's joint or should I just use Sea Ray's joint method to make the splice? A scarf would be about a 6 inch joint and a Sea Ray splice joint would be about 48 inches long with the the removal of another bulkhead.
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