I'm interested in buying a 365. Soggy balsa deck core scares me. Has anyone had issues with their deck core? If so, in what areas? I'd like to be able to focus my own pre-survey on areas that need it.
Thanks,
Leo
When we refit Sol everything was remove from the deck. I found a little rot around the bow pulpit, about 1/4 inch around the bolts on the starboard side. Not much to speak of, get a good survey and really check it out.
Leo
deck core issue is a pain to fix.
high $$ if done by a yard, not worth it IMO.
Now if you get the boat cheap enough, and are not scared by redoing the deck ? why not... but a rotten deck basically means a poorly maintained boat...
Hi
i have totally rebuilt my 365 had every fitting off,the only core damage i found was as said around the feet of the front hand rail,very easy to repair just scrape around in side the two layers removing the old core tape up from inside then fill with ressin from the out side ,when dry just drill the bolt holes out took me about 3 hours work
hardest job was rewiring the nav lights joint is in the chain looker
I removed all of the deck hardware as well and found no core damage except both cockpit locker lids and the vent blower hole. The locker lids of course is where you step when entering the boat. Removed the inner fiberglass, scrapped the wet core out, replaced the core and re-glassed the bottom. Took two days each. The vent blower I scrapped out with a screw driver, thickened some epoxy and filled. It was never sealed from the factory.
I would take balsa over foam everyday.
I will agree with Graemek, changing out those sockets in the forward nav lights is a real pain.
Dale