Fixing Boat Floor Rot

Too often the manufacturers fasten the floor on with screws right through the glass on top of the stringer.

Fixing boat floor rot. Once you are confident that the rotten sections have been removed you can start to repair the floor as needed. If the dry rot extends deeper than 1 4 inch 0 64 cm boric acid won t have much of an effect. This is a system that uses two part structural foam that makes a mushy boat deck firm without replacement. If you have the means and resources to remove a piece of the boat floor and replace it then that is the best thing you can do for the boat.

Therefore you should consider working on your own boat. You cannot repair the boat floor while rotten wood remains as it will only continue to rot. The result is a floor that feels spongy to touch. You go to fix the floor and find that the glass is delaminating around the stringers and the wood inside is rotted.

The above plywood was labelled as marine. Please like and or subscribe to enable me to get some more videos and tutorials online. You really must be good with your hands unless you want to pay someone to do everything for you. Over time boat floors begin to show wear and tear from repeated exposure to the elements specifically water.

Scrape away rotted wood for a serious case of dry rot. This second world war torpedo boat was recently restored the ends of the plywood were sealed but the water still permeated into the floor causing it to rot. The need for a new boat floor becomes inevitable when the floor has a soft spongy feel that is a sure sign of dry rot. You ll need to scrape away the rotted wood which will take the rot causing fungus with it.

However the need for replacing a boat floor does not mean the end of your boating days. The illustration above shows the layout and you can see how the pattern progresses. A rotted floor is one of.