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Alarie,
Not sure I understand what you have done. Are the new, 3" x 1-1/2" stringers actually sleepers laid side to side (perpendicular to the hull's centerline) and then vacume bagged to the underside of the new deck, and then the whole piece is laid in over the old deck? If so, how would you introduce pitch to the center, and how are you going to tab the edges of the deck into the sides of the liner?
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The sleepers are glassed to the underside of the new floor, across the CL, to provide support. They are 2 3" x 3/4" strips of ply, glued together with uni glass top and bottom, and then screwed to the underside of the floor and buried under the DB120 that covers the entire underside.
When I install the floor, I will tie these sleepers to the hull stringers (exposed as I have removed 80% of the old floor) with blocking and goop, and then fillet and glass the edges of the new floor to the liner. There is a small recess in the edge of the new floor, under the glass, that will accept the tabbing. You can see where the hull liner is ground, which is where I will put the new glass.
My feeling is that when this floor is attached to the old stringers and the hull liner, it will be totally bomb proof. It is stiff enough now that I was tempted to skip the blocking, but it will add so much strength that I will do it.
I am not exactly sure how I will pitch the floor to CL; the first sleeper is 18" forward, so the aft edge is a bit flexible. I left a 10" wide section of the old floor across the back, which I will probably use to pull the new floor down in the middle. I think if I can get 1/2" or so, that will do it.
I have also made the floor about 3/4" short in the back, so that I can make a fillet waterway under the tabbing, which should also help get water to the center. If this whole arrangement does not work so well, I will just add drain tubes from the corners to the transom.
Thanks,
Peter