23' rebuild progress

[OTTERLY COOL]

OTTO

It's me again

Yeah! Where are the Stringers - the potters had fiberglass (no wood at all) box stringers that were filled with foam and went flat to the deck. They were sort of inverted, flat bottm "U"'s that were glassed to the bottom of the boat so that the flat portion of the "U" met, and probably supported the deck. In fact, my 1984 20 - (it wasn't a 1988 as I stated before on the site-that's when I traded it in. It was a CSY or something boat- I don't think it was a tracker yet) had the box stringers also - they went flush to the deck as far as I could see ( when I went "inside" to replace bilge pump)and they were filled with some kind of expandable foam. I know that to be true because they (CSY ??) never covered the expansion holes - I covered the holes with mat and epoxy because I was afraid the foam would eventually become saturated. (Sorry -kind of rambling tonight).

What am I missing in your pictures - or was I wrong about the stringers all these years.

Let me know.

KEEP WORKING

BOB