Re: Fiberglass Toons on a skippercraft
Well, experience from my last rebuild of a Bayliner and dealing with floatation foam, and if it is foam filled, (And I am guessing they are since even most U shaped aluminum ones are), I would estimate you could have as much as 200 -300 pounds of water in the foam. When I removed the water logged foam in my old Bayliner, I pulled out about 300 pounds of old soaked insulation. Now given that if the tune may have bulkheads for added stability and flotation, that may be why the boat sits more heavy to the Stearn. Taken all that into account there is not much you can do short of either pulling the boat and letting them dry out (for at least a week and hope for high temps and low humidity), but I don't think the foam will never completely dry out, or, cutting it out and re-building and re-filling with new foam (Yuk.... Big Job!).
There is a Grey, not Silver, lining to the whole situation though. It was the dock guy who messed it up, he needs to make it right! Now me, I would be incredibly nice but incredibly ticked off that someone with experience did this to one of my (For lack of a better term) Family members. I would suggest he needs to make sure they get as dry as possible, make sure the boat is pulled out, and if it is still not right (back to where it was at the 4" - 6" higher in the water), pay for it to be fixed right. Sorry if that sounds rough, but I take my boats and their care very seriously, if I didn't I would not have given them names.
