Floor repair?

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What kind of boat do you have? Floors in aluminum boats are easy to repair but if you have a fiberglass boat you can be in for some big trouble, some manufactures of fiberglass boats use wood in the floor, water gets in and rots the supports. Almost all newer boats don't have any wood to rot in them.
 
It is a Fiberglass bass boat. Can it be fixed? If so, who does it? It's not real bad now, but it will get worse I'm sure. If it can't be fixed I'll just fish it till it sinks and then fish at it on the bottom.
 
I had the same probles a few years ago. I went ahead and fixed it myself.... it's an old Bumblee so I figured I couldnt screw it up to bad. I wasnt able to refloor the entire cockpit floor. (that would have reqired lifting the whole top of the boat. I basically stripped the carpet off, set the skillsaw shallow and cut a square out where the soft spot was.
I bought a sheet of marine grade plywoood ($$$) and used about half of it. The stringers were still in good shape so I feft them alone, and replaced the old soft section of floor with the new marine plywood. I sealed it with matting and marine epoxy from Boaters World (Iv'e heard fiberglass resin isn't completey water resisitant)... about 2-3 layers of matting and resin overlapping new and existing wood. I went ahead and installed new (cheap) carpet through the rest of the boat (big pain in the a$$).
It's been over a year now and still solid as a rock... knock on wood. lol. Just to let you know, I'm not much of a mechanic or carpenter, but I'm fairly handy with power tools and folllowing instruction... with that being said it was still a challenging job but worked out in the end. It sure beat the estimates I was getting. Good luck and feel free to ask any more questions.
 

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