Sometimes you just have to go with your gut - it has been right and wrong over the years and time will tell here as well.
Here are the pix of the repair:
- I epoxied the seam.
- I used (2) plys of mat to cover the replacement plywood.
- Then, another (2) plys of mat to cover the seams and on top of that,
- another (2) plys of 1708. It's solid.
I appreciate everyone's insight and input. The only other options I saw were to not do it this way and to either; 1) bed the seam in 5200, or 2) use thickened cabosil/ chopped glass in the seam to allow for ridgidity but be the linch-pin and sacrificial in that if it needed to break, it would break there. Again, I opted to make it solid.
