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George, not sure what stage you are at, but if you can get to the main stringers under the deck forward of the fuel tanks, carefully inspect the top of the stringers, particularly on the stb side. The hull can flex enough so that the stringer is banging into the inner liner even where it is as much as an inch or two above the stringer. Top of the stringer gets crushed. Look at the tabbing at the forward end of particularly the stb stringer, for flex damage.

Also look for foam in the bottom of the center V. If you have some, look carefully at the bulkheads where the foam touches them. Mine were rotten at that point, all three of them. You could see where water ran across the top of the foam and contacted the bulkhead wood.

If the main stringers in the aft half of the boat are showing no damage on the outside, tabing is ok, etc, they are probably ok in that area, holes or not