Hail Yeah back under the knife

[flyingfrizzle]

Originally Posted by BA17

Here is the latest update. Got the floor out and cut the bottom out of the fish box. The entire front bulk has broken loose. Not sure how the best way to put that back in? You can move it side to side with your hands. Could this be the reason for the cracking and hole in the bow? There is a pic of the hole from the inside. It is the pic that looks like coconut hair. Stringers look rough where the tank beat them up, but forward they look good. Hard to tell how wet the foam is in the stringers, I found a couple of spots where it is wet. Would the best approach be to take all the foam out of the stringers just in case?

That's got something to do with it. I had a 1978 20' Contental that did the same thing. She got ran hard in some close chop in the Pamlico sound near hobucken (you may know this area since your from nc too) and the repetitive beating knocked the forward bulkhead loose plus tore threw similar to yours. Mainly my fault for running it so hard and beating the he'll out of it but the way I look at it she will hold up or not. This time she didnt. I would think a seacraft would do better but there could of been other issues in the lay up maybe?