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Hey Hardee, There is a depression there and I plan to install a second bilge pump, either electric or manual. I have a sump to starboard of the companionway door. The rear bulkhead straddles it with half in the cockpit and half under the stove. There’s a bilge pump in there. The good news...

Anyone have a source for a new fuel tank selector decal? Mine is faded and I'm unable to find a new one.

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So it's not as bad as I thought. Looks like now I just rout out the bad balsa and fill with thickened epoxy? Any tips on finishing it so that it looks like the hopes were never there? Even though most will be covered by the tank. Most holes only had about an inch of wet balsa, the exception...

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If I get wet holes say in a 5 inch area around the mounting holes do I just drill say ¼ holes throughout the area and fill with epoxy? Then paint it with something? I just drilled the mounting holes with a ½ bit and 5 of the 7 were wet. If you cut a square out of the top skin to replace a piece...

If I get wet holes say in a 5 inch area around the mounting holes do I just drill say ¼ holes throughout the area and fill with epoxy? Then paint it with something? I just drilled the mounting holes with a ½ bit and 5 of the 7 were wet. If you cut a square out of the top skin to replace a piece...

So I finally tackled this job today. Hows your new 25 coming Bob, we're dreaming of one after hopefully getting many years out of our 22, lol. The plan was just to do the port side first as I'd ran the tank almost empty but after getting going I just removed both tanks. There were/are 26 screws...

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Thanks Bob, They are a labor of love. Hopefully we can do some of the organized cruises. That Cumberland river one looks fun.

I'm still mulling this over. I'm thinking glassing in something to screw the starboard hold down strip into may be a little overkill. What I think would be the easiest fix would be to just drill out the holes in the deck, undercut them and fill it with epoxy and then just screw the starboard...