Fuel Tank sub floor replacement

[hermco]

I think you worry too much about that center stringer. I mentioned before that I don't think it serves any purpose.

I asked Potter about this once and he told me they were adding the center stringer to reinforce the keel that sat on the trailer rollers that were used back in those days. I don't see that it hepls because the keel is where you overlap the laminates when you build the boat anyway. You also have the extra material when you add the stringers. Seems to me the center stringer serves little or no purpose except to rot and get in the way of transducers etc.