Hello everybody, I have the typical dumbass boat owner story of the rotten floor. I own a 93 Crownline 196 (19') bow rider, had it for three years, not a whole lot invested in it but it sure has been fun for the family. The drivers seat post about fell over last weekend so I took it up to find the floor had been patched and was broke all up. I peeled off the deck to find a totaly rotted support box for the post. I read for a about an hour on I-boats about repairing it. Decided it was too hot and I had to little time and experience so I called a "guy" on Craigslist. He seemed knowledgable and honest. Wrong! When I stopped by the next day he had opened up most of the deck, I saw where the stringers were glassed in, the wood could be dug out with your fingers. The next day he called and said he was finished, I knew then I had been screwed, I told him I wanted to see the material he had used to replace and seal the stucture and the floor, he had nothing, Told him I had bruoght a holesaw to take a core sample from the floor and I would pay him $100 for his time, whitch I did and now I have to rip out the floor and do it myself. I will do it after this season. He did support it well enough to hold the seats. My ? is when replacing the stringers can I use treated 2x's and just slide them in the slots left by the rotted ones?
