Screwing into new wood/ Stringers

So last night I cut my bilge access hole in the front in front of the ski pole. That got me to thinking about how I wanted to mount the cover, seat frames, latches, hinges, wire zip ties in the bilge.

From the factory they were all screwed in but I am a little worried after all this work water proofing (As good as I can anyhow)to just drill a hole and screw into it.

What does everyone else do? Drill a pilot hole, CPES the holes a couple of times, let dry, 5200 the holes and run the screw in? Are there any other ways out there?

I have been working on this thing for long enough that I do not want water to have an option to get back under the floor or in the stringers if at any way possible.

Big Pappa wrote: What does everyone else do? Drill a pilot hole, CPES the holes a couple of times, let dry, 5200 the holes and run the screw in? Are there any other ways out there?

Yes, and I'd inject some epoxy after the CPES as well. If it plugs up your pilot hole, drill it again.

gun-driver wrote: It would be pretty hard to do that for the seat bases and latches without making a mess of the carpet. Not to say it can't be done but I would hate to mess up my new carpet over some little screw holes.

With the 5200, just put it on the screw threads.

Don't know if this works or not, it would be easy to try though. Drill the hole, fill it with epoxy and then put a dab of grease or vasaline on the screw before you put it in. Supposedly that keeps the epoxy from attaching to the screw so it can be removed and coats the hole with epoxy at the same time.

You're probably right, I don't have anything to test it on or with right now, but it would be easy enough for someone who's already working on something to giving a try. I would worry most that the screw would be stuck.   An alternative test would be a hole larger that the screw so you could place it without turning it and mixing the epoxy and grease. That one might only work on floors otherwise the epoxy would run out.

That would take care of it. I'm not planning on needing to do that anytime soon or possibly ever again. The boat with no rot keeps me plenty busy with no need to try that and I don't see the time or the wife agreeing to another project boat. We were happy though to run into our old boat last weekend and 5 years later she still looks as good as the day I finished her.