Stringer Repair

I have used an epoxy for firming up a soft floor. It's called Git Rot, and works pretty well. You drill holes and squirt it in. It gets solid. It's a temporary fix, although I've been nursing this floor for over 10 years. I'll have to pay the piper sooner or later, as the rotted section is much larger now, than when I started using the Git Rot.

1992 Ski, I have rot under the left front engine mounting bolt. Its the lag bolt that goes through the top of the stringer holding the engine craddle to the stringer.

Here's one!

checking for stringer rot

Read this thread. It's pretty good at explaining how to check for rot.

The thread you read about cutting the top of the fiberglass cap of the stringer off and then pouring in a epoxy mix was maybe a year back. I haven't heard anything back about it but my gut feeling is no. It sounds too much like a quick and dirty repair to me. It certainly hasn't proven itself yet ether. I do remember it was expensive and it was heavy too.

Pete, Went down stairs and cut the floor open just above the stringer and pulled some bolts out on the passenger side and found the top one inch of the stringer rotted from 3" forward of the engine bay to just past the middle of the engine mounting bracket.

Paul

PS Everything else is solid.

Hopefully that is the only bad spot and then I would go with trying a patch. I do feel that you should check more of the stringers especially lower where it meets the hull. See if you can probe the foam for water too.

There are two methods I've used. When I had access to a bridge crane and hoists it was easy to roll over in some long nylon straps. The other is about 6 friends give or take 1 or 2 depending on how big they are and a case of beer give or take 1 or 2 depending on their drinking habits!! Get some old rubber tires to set one side on and then roll it over. Once over, you can set it down on some padded 4x4's on top of the trailer bunks. Then you can move it if required.

Are you planning on re gelling the bottom?