wet stringers??

[jwclbi]

Thanks guys. Yes Frizzle mine has the two large foam filled stringers, thats my concern with the water. Also, really how water could really be in there? Can't be a couple hundred pounds worth, could it??

[erebus]

Originally Posted by jwclbi

Can't be a couple hundred pounds worth, could it??

Well, water weighs about 8.3 pounds per gallon, and there are 7.5 gallons in a cubic foot. So a solid cubic foot of water would weigh 62.25 pounds.

So if the stringers are 100% soaked halfway up, say 6 inches, for the back half of the boat (call it 10 feet) and they're one foot wide (don't actually know how wide they are), that would be 311.25 pounds of water per stringer.

The odds that they are solid 100% water 6 inches up is pretty slim, so call it 3 inches up (which is still a stretch) that would be about 155 pounds of water per stringer in the back of the boat.

Those examples don't really account for the area of the foam itself, the angle of the hull (which would change the internal volume of the stringer) or the actual water saturation in your case.
Just giving you some broad strokes.
You can change the numbers around to match your actual stringer sizes and estimation of water saturation.

[FLexpat]

Stringers might be wet and might not but a a small hole on each one will tell you. The obvious issue for wet stringers is the weight but you can probably either dry them a bit or learn to live with/accommodate it as it isn't a big time structural issue (other than possible some delam over many years). But if they really are wet now and were not several years ago when you rebuilt it, I would seriously wonder how they got that way after you did the deck in the rebuild.