Wood in stringers??

[Islandtrader]

Originally Posted by crsavage1

I opened the top of one of stringers to see how easy the wood would come out with the plan being to foam the stringers back in, the wood isn't really budging. Without chiseling it out, or opening the stingers from the side, it would be pretty difficult to get the wood out. There is a significant void in the stringer as they are much wider than the original wood. I could foam that in?

Or like I said, I could cut open the stringers from the side as I did the one and get the wood out?

No need to take the wood out.

My 21 had wood stringers...they were mostly gone. The wood is only used to form the fiberglass mat...the fiber glass mat is the strength . All I did is remove some of the wet wood, closed up the stringer and applied more fiberglass mat over the top. When they used foam same thing. The foam really has no strength it was used to form the stringer.