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Small cracks usually become bigger cracks over time. That little movement of the t-top is like bending wire sooner or later the wire breaks down, well sooner or later the gel coat gets to the fiberglass and then water gets into the core material. Looking at your boat picture it appears to be a newer boat, if so see if it is on warrantee. If yours is a newer boat your core material should be composite material that doesn’t rot like balsa. Another questions is who put the t-top on & what type of hardware did they use sheet mettle screws through the deck or is it bolted with nuts and washers under the deck with a plate. One of the problems with composite core material is that if you just use sheet metal screws the screws have nothing to hold onto like wood gives the screws something to bit onto. Another possibility is that the screws are screwed down so tight and the composite material not very firm that the pressure of the screws themselves is doing some damage themselves. Bottom line is that you will have to ask your self when is it time to pull the trigger and do something about it. For me since I live in South Florida I set aside the middle of the summer to do fix up work on my boat it’s to hot to fish and to far away from the air conditioning and the Budweiser locker, guy’s up north do their work during the winter when it is to cold to fish. This could be something you need to do this year maybe next or maybe even four years down the line depending on how fast and how bad it gets.
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