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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