Re: Currently repairing crack in hull, questions
You don't have to grind any material away on the inner side of the damage, just rough it up about 5 inches all the way around, and lay a few layers of epoxy/cloth. On the outside of the damage area, you want to grind material away to form a dished area around the damage, then lay each layer a bit larger than the last until it is built up to the level of the rest of the hull. If you plan on re-gellcoating the damage for cosmetic reasons, you have to use poly/cloth for the exterior repair. If you don't care what the end result looks like or are painting the hull, then epoxy/cloth is fine. I had a gash in a similar area on my hull and repaired it only from the outside, because I had just layed a new floor with foam and was not going to cut into than new floor. <br /><br />As far as fixing your floor, you can soak some ply strips in epoxy and screw them in to form a lip all the way around the hole as best as possible. Use stainless screws and countersink them through the floor into the strips. Them you can cut new ply, soak in epoxy, and lay the new pieces into the hole. The new pieces will set on the lip you built. Then you screw the new wood in, countersinking the screws of course, and sheath the whole repair with epoxy/cloth ensuring all countersunk screw heads are covered. Then you just recarpet or whatever floor covering you are doing. Good luck...
