Re: Ouachita Spirit 16' Tri Hull
The front area was very simple. I cut a piece of automotive carpet to the shape of the cutout I had made in the floor under the casting deck. I fit it in, and soaked it with resin. I put the plywood piece right on top of the bottom carpet layer while the resin was still wet, so that it would soak the bottom of the plywood. I then put the final top layer of carpet on top of that while the resin was still wet, and soaked it as well with resin. Warning; using automotive carpet with fiberglass resin = a LOT of resin. As for the back end of the boat, I cut out the soft spot, dug out the rotted material, and filled the cavity with foam up to the level of the bottom of the plywood. I cut the plywood to fit the cutout I had made, brushed resin to the underside, and screwed it down to the fiberglass structure(after closely examining the depth of the hull so I did not go through the hull) with drywall screws. I then poured more resin into the edges that had space between the plywood I cut out and the original boat structure. Once I had the gaps filled with enough resin to level it off, I put the Spandex fabric on top, overlapping the cutout, and brushed resin all the way around. I let it dry for a day or so, and then sprayed some surface grip texture to the floor so that things would not slide around on the new repaired area.
