My boat? is it useless?

Question

The floor at the back of the boat feels a little spongy, is it ruined and i have to replace the floor or is it shot and the boat is no good? If i can fix it, how much would it cost and how would i fix it?

Answer 1

The main question to be asked is where did the water come from and why? The 2nd question to ask, and you won't know until you tear out the existing floor, is "are the stringers rotting too?"

Replacing the flooring is not that difficult but can be tricky.

Stringers rotted? Can be fixed but best done by a professional.

Once the repairs are made...find the means to keep it from happening again.

Good luck.

Answer 2

What kind of boat?

What year?

Too many unknowns in your question.

If you can post an image of your boat and the affected areas, you might get some good advice.

Other than that, it's a guess.

Boat repair can be expensive... painfully expensive.

Answer 3

How big and what type of boat?  Small kicker boats are probably not worth the time and trouble, larger yachts, it is a good investment. The 14 to 25 foot vessels are in the maybe group. It just depends on the boat and the extent of the damage. You can not tell how much damage until you start removing the damaged area and inspecting/repairing it.  Call a couple of small boat repair yards and get guesstimates from them.

Answer 4

The spongy feel is most likely caused from water getting under the fiberglass and rotting the wood under neath. If, indeed, it is a fiberglass boat. A quick fix would be to remove the damaged wood to were you get to an area that is not damaged, replace it with good wood and fiberglass over the new area. I don't see why you would have to replace the whole floor or "ceiling" if it is just one little area. Now if it is a large area then, yea, you might wanna think about replacing the whole  ceiling. Hope this helps

Answer 5

you can re-floor it ,i did mine about 5 years ago,we used 3/4 inch pressure treated wood in it,so it will be there for a long time to come,it cost me about 300 to do mine and that was just supplies,and carpet,if you have it done it cost a lot  more,but its still fixable and you can save big bucks if you do most of the work your self stripping it down to the floor is the hardest part of doing this job,and putting it back together isn't that bad,good luck with it.

Answer 6

Here is a re-cycled reply to another question. I was too lazy to write it out again!

Some will need fiberglassing, some use only carpeted plywood. The latter is simple, glassing a bit more complex but still "do-able".

It's not real hard but you do need a good working area, and proper tools. I just re-floored a 17' tri-hull in a couple of days.

Go to Google and type in this; Fiberglass boat floor replacement, Many good site will come up.

Also check out these guys; http://www.fiberglasssite.com/servlet/St...

That's where I got all my glass supplies. Use the cheaper polyester resin, and I used the 2 ounce chopped strand matting. It was a fun project, and well worth the effort.

Also, rather than using marine grade plywood, or exterior, I used pressure treated ply. On the site above click on the Fiberglassing decks thread. Good info there.

You can get by without fiberglassing if you get the new wood (PT plywood) stable. Just carpet over it!