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Repairing core moisture
BIG.
One can''t realy (to my knowledge) DRY the moisture (which means rot/mildew)
Rip up that section of deck, cut out the bad section of core, recore, reglass. of course with the first generation of glass boats just now becoming dirt cheap, there are a decent quantity of 20something kids who bought their first boat and learned to fix it, including this, and who now liveaboard and will do boat work cheap. Maybe find one of them to do it for you?
Next question. What other fittings are drilled through core material, instead of core cut back and glassed over? Which is to say, what OTHER areas of the deck are going to be rotting in 5 years? Doing it right is a major project.
small example: http://www.sndi.net/seafarer31/deck&recoring.htm
Note: for my money, I''d recore with a mildew resistant synthetic core, but thats me. Other people with alot more experience than me will disagree (or agree, ask 2 people, get 5 opinions.)
-- James
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