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[ob1jeeper]

I'm going to defer to the response to your question from Hermco. He's had significantly more experience at this than I, and I'm sure that if he knew it wouldn't work, he wouldn't be telling you it's ok to fill the space with a cabosil mix.

Wish I'd understood that before I replaced mine, as taking a small aft portion of the top cap off, to make room to slide in the new core, came close to doubling the amount of work required

Hermco,
Hypothetically, let's say that the wood coring is only wet in the center portion, from leakage around the motor mount bolts and perhaps a thru-hulls or two, but has NOT progressed all the way to the hull sides. In Protek's case, let's say the wood behind the 2" wide strip on the hull sides is dry and not comprimised with water or rot in any way...

Would it be an incorrect repair approach to simply leave that portion of the old core in place and bond the new core to it with epoxy, instead of taking it out and replacing it all with Cabosil?