The transom has been done recently and is in great condition and just needs a little cleaning up. Most of the rest of the boat is in nice condition as well other than the floor. It has a few soft spots here and there. Last night I started looking at the soft spots in the floor and found that it was worst than I thought. So I did a little digging at it and then realized it needs to go. All of it. It looked like someone redone most of it minus the 12" edges closest to the outside of the hull at some point. In the pics you can see where the balsa core is gone around the sides of the floor and where the newer squares of plywood had been changed had soaked up water from the places where the original balsa was left. The new wood was not rotted yet but soaking wet and getting soft. You could not tell this till it was cut into. The wet squares felt solid standing on them but in a year or two all of it would of been soft so I figured the best thing to do is replace all of it. I started cutting out just one spot to see what I would be up against but keep going till I had most of it out. Hard to stop cutting once I get going at it. Found out that all the foam in the boat is wet. There was a large block that was behind the tank without bulkheads just soaking up water. It had 2 holes cut in it so the water could drain past it and out the back. Some one cut holes in top of the stringers and refilled part of them with foam. They did not reseal them so it is wet again. I will remove all of the foam and cut the stringer tops out and make them back 2" taller so I can raise the deck up a little to help the self bailing. Here are a few pics of the tear out. Note the chunk of wood that was glass to the bottom of the floor to keep it from sagging down where the stringers were shorter at the back of the boat.
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