deck recored and installed
deck re-coring was finally complete, with all areas glassed over and sealed up.
the problem i am facing now is when i pulled the deck of my seacraft, the deck and the stringers had epocy "blobs" that were about an inch think that elevated the deck. those blobs were removed during recoring process of the deck so i removed them on the stringers as well.
in its place i used spacer but were actually foam filled stringers that were about 4 inches in width and one inch in depth. i cut these to length and glassed them into certain areas where i new the deck would be making contact with the stringers
when i placed the deck back in the boat however, the deck was very bouncy, i checked to see if the spacers were touching the stringers and they were slighty but the outward edges of the decks had no support and the cap between the hull and the edge of the deck had grown to about two and a half inches. the bow deck area sits flush along the hull.
should i remove my spacers? will this allow the deck to sit flush with stringers or will bottom of gas tank bottom out on the center stringers before this happens?
i have also thought of poring void with 4lb foam and letting the deck rest on that.
any help would be appreciated,
thank you
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