removed some poor glass work as well

may be hard to see but some laminated wood mounting block was poorly done. when I cut this one open water poured out!

on a better not, this is a section of the decking....solid!

started cutting out the decking and foam....the floor is soling but I wanted to check out the foam to see how wet it was and to really get a good idea as to the integrity of the flooring....and to install some chases to run the new rigging

surprisingly, the foam was bone dry.....no signs of moisture

unfortunately not much progress but did cut out the stringers where they attached to the transom...only sign of moisture was around the drain....notice the black marks where the drain was

when I cut out part of the center/ keel stringer it was saturated but solid...if there is such a thing. should I be worried? the lower pic shows the section of keel stringer I removed. again, it is solid but not mush. Thoughts?

I think it isn't that big of a problem - I remember reading a thread here where someone discussed this - IIRC the thought was that the glass on the center stringer is thick enough that the wood is not really needed for strength - it could be a hollow stringer and work just fine. Based on that, I just let mine dry out when I discovered the same thing - wood fine but pretty damp and very thick glass.

thanks for the input Flexpat....that's kinda what I was thinking too....

Fatcat had the same issue with my I followed it back maybe 18" or so where I found clean dry wood ?cut it on a 45 and potter puddled a new PC back in and reglassed it Back in