Why you shouldn't just lay new plywood over rotten deck

[wildvortex]

A PO did just that with my boat. Here are the results. Every piece of wood MUST be replaced except possibly the main stringers.

The better part of the deck

 

[WILSONS88]

Re: Why you shouldn't just lay new plywood over rotten deck

The glass coming off the stringer is not a good sign. Nice job by the PO on doing it the easy way.:facepalm:

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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Pictures are worth a thousand words. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the flotation foam is saturated with water too.

 

[not enuf toys]

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i have owned several used boats and come across stupid "easy way out fixes" all the time, thus 'IF YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT THE RIGHT WAY, DONT!"

this one i think takes the cake tho!

 

[oops!]

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yeah,,,,,, i see it all the time......lay down another cut piece of plywood.....and throw a rug on it.

it looks good and feels strong.......but it condems the boat in 2 seasons.

traps all moisture under the deck.....and also lets more heat develop....the fungus just thrives

 

[NSBCraig]

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Great thread name!

 

[Cadwelder]

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I had a restore on a ProCraft a few years back, where the previous owner had put a new piece of 1/4" plywood over the entire deck (actually did a nice job of cutting to fit) and then glassed the whole thing in, tabbed and all. What alot of work for a totally worthless patch. The old deck (under the new ply) was so bad you could still feel the flex in the new deck.

When I bought the boat, the ad said "NEW FLOOR", so this told me it was full restore before leaving the house...LOL I was right, but the price was right and the "real" restore turned out quite nice.

 

[wildvortex]

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fortunatly there is little moisture in the foam. gonna try to save what I can of it

 

[Cadwelder]

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Foam doesn't dry out....unfortunately it has to be removed and replaced.

 

[wildvortex]

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when I say a little I am talking 1/16 of an inch speratically where the wet wood was sitting on it. fortunatly the PO tabbed the new in well and no other moisture was allowed in

 

[Yacht Dr.]

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when I say a little I am talking 1/16 of an inch speratically where the wet wood was sitting on it. fortunatly the PO tabbed the new in well and no other moisture was allowed in

Aye .. but water comes in 3 forms .. liquid/gas/solid ..

Its also going to migrate down left untouched. .. meaning your "dry" foam on your deck dont mean a hill of beans when you have wet foam.

If you have wet foam .. You should "get it out of there" basically is what the forum is suggesting.

I have many of times had to go into a Compartment filled with foam and its all dry on my cut-out .. then I have to get to the repair and find 4" of wet Foam.

IF You have water .. thats ICE/HUMIDITY and FLUID. .. And Water INside a boats construction is a NO NO .. period.

Im just saying.

YD.

PS. Go dig for wet foam .. ?

 

[jasoutside]

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Yah, see it all the time around here. Kinda goes like this...

"Couldn't I just lay down some new ply over this nasty mulch? I just want to run it for a couple more years then sell it to get something nice."

 

[wildvortex]

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Well the foam issue is a mute point now. Pulled out some that I had planned on pulling anyway and this is what I found

 

[jasoutside]

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You found a colon?

That is gross.

Yah, pulling up the rest would be a good move just in case something else is hiding under there

 

[LonLB]

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That is how it goes. Even foam you think is dry, is saturated down near the bottom.

 

[produceguy]

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you found a colon?

That is gross.

Yah, pulling up the rest would be a good move just in case something else is hiding under there

lmao!!!!

 

[jigngrub]

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Most of this kinda crap goes on just before they put it up for sale.

 

[wildvortex]

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Yah, the problem is that the PO to me was my step-dad. I know that he did not do any of that. After talking to him I found that he bought it from a boat store down in Fl. I won't name names and they said that they had just "reupholstered" it. I belive they were the ones to do all that as does he. SO BUYER BE WARE EVEN WHEN BUYING FROM A BOAT DEALERSHIP

 

[Friscoboater]

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My brother in laws boat looks like that. For some reason he thinks its safe.

 

[seamorewaterVIP]

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You found a colon?

That is gross.

Yah, pulling up the rest would be a good move just in case something else is hiding under there

I was toodling along reading the post saw the pic and said to my self I knew he had wet foam the jasoutside hits me with the colon comment and bwwwhhhahahaha.