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Originally Posted by FLexpat
Man that sucks!
My deck was only bonded to the stringers by blobs and drizzles of 'potter putty' on the tops of the stringers - since the tops of the stringers were not parallel with the underside of the deck, the gap ranged from ~1/4" to about 1.5". If the deck is flexing a whole lot I would suspect the deck core is separated from one or both skins - it may be rotted as well. The core is probably a combination of 3/8" balsa and plywood squares. A good panel with a 3/8" core is pretty stiff.
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Thanks. Did you end up raising the stringers and laying a new deck? Looks like you were heading that way in your build. I’m sure our two boats weren’t the only ones that came from the factory this way.
I’m curious if others have gotten away without ripping it out entirely. The deck lasted 30 years this way, I wonder if a new core will just make it stiff enough.