Didn't have alot of time to work on the boat this weekend. However, we did get some stuff done.
The foam in the stringers was very loose and we had some broken glass in random places. We decided to cut open the tops and clean out all the foam.
We got them all cleaned out and put the heat lamp in for a while. Then we started pouring in fresh foam.
After 2 1/1 gallon pours they were getting close
It took 3 1/1 (6 gallons) gallon pours to fill the starboard side stringer up. We had to trim up some of the foam that came out the tops.
Here we are about to lay up a layer of 1708 to close it up.
Wetting out a 2nd layer of 1708
The glass that we cut out was fairly thick. We figured two layers of 1708 would be strong enough. We are using epoxy resin for this whole project. The difference in the new stringer and the old stringer is night and day. The old stringer is VERY weak compared to the new.
4 Bags of wet foam we dug out of the starboard side stringer and between the outside of the stringers and hull sides.
We plan to do the same thing on the port side stringer. After cleaning up the old glass today....i've got the "itch" pretty bad.
more to come......
-Mike