Suggestions for ways to reinforce the stringer?

[jbutler67]

Boat is a 1986 Rampage 24 Express

The second poor design of this Rampage is the screw holes for the jack shaft cover.The screw holes are right over the stringers and a place that allows water to leak onto the stringers. (see picture). (First poor design, IMHO, is no access to fuel tanks without cutting deck... but I digress.)

Holes are cut by each screw hole to let those areas dry. The stringer has some moisture penetration on the top but I picked at the stringer with an a pointed awl and stringer is solid.

In the second picture, you can see the cracks that are forming.

Suggestions for ways to reinforce the stringer? Stop the cracks from getting larger?

 

[kcassells]

Overdrill the hole beyond depth. Fill with EEEpppoxy or the othe stuff. Then drill out to new ss equiptment you eant to use. Some guys wax the stuff with car polish so the bolts don't get attached into the pour. You can set something like althread sockets in ther to accept the new bolts.
BTW that stringer is prob. overcomprimised/rotted.

 

[Woodonglass]

Depending on how she's stored and cared for, I might be advisable to core sample that stringer

 

[Grub54891]

The only tried and true method of re-enforcing a stringer is.... Replacement.