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Originally Posted by jesusv
as i was removing the glass on the transom to remove the coring i cut back the stringers, as i mad my first cut midway up the stringer water begins rolling out. i made another inspection cut about 1.5 feet from the transom and same thing. what now? its a 23 inboard and im in south florida dont know if i should be putting this much time into an inboard, which is a great boat but realistically an outboard would be much better for so. fl.. thinking my time would be better spent on an outboard model. any suggestions, advice?
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If the floor is in good shape . . . I'd try to dry out the foam without ripping the boat apart. You can use a hole saw and drill a few 2" holes in the stringer (2" up from bottom of the stringer) to get a better idea of the situation. It's far easier to patch bunch of 2" holes than replace the entire stringer and floor
. What I've seen in a few other boats is that only the bottom 1" of foam gets wet and the rest of the foam inside the stringer is dry . . . If that's the case just you can fix it easily without ripping the entire boat to pieces.