[Rhodes22-list] Old R22 cockpit sole pic - I cut it out :(

[Richard Stott]

An aye for an eye 
A soul for a sole
Got a hand full now with that great big hole. 

Good luck with that. 
Ric 
sv Dadventure 
hampton Bays 



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> On Mar 31, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
> 
> Certainly not what I would expect to find.  Fortunately, my cockpit sole feels quite solid, so I hope to never have a reason to take it up and find out what’s underneath.
> 
> Thanks for sharing.
> 
> Peter Nyberg
> Coventry, CT
> s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)
> 
> 
>> On Mar 31, 2018, at 2:55 PM, redneckyc <steverayj at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I haven't posted here in a while but my boat has been waiting for me in
>> storage to get it ready for the water again. My first project is to fix the
>> spongy cockpit sole. (This boat is from early 70's). So I cut out the raised
>> portion not really knowing what I'd find but expecting waterlogged plywood.
>> Anyway turns out I was sure wrong. It is solid fiberglass with a box-like
>> bulkhead structure underneath with a 2x4 going laterally. And full of pieces
>> of foam!!  So now I am going to make new bulkheads and redo and install the
>> same piece of glass back over the new box. So the reason it was spongy was
>> not waterlogged core as it had no core. It was delamination between the sole
>> and the bulkheads/box. It also looks like some of the tabbing for the
>> bulkheads has come loose. Anyway just thought I'd share how my boat was put
>> together like 45 years ago.
>> <http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/file/t569/r22_cockpit.jpg> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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