[C320-list] Voids under the deck

[Jerry Brown]

Help Please

Our 5 year year old 320 has bubbling and cracking of the anti skid, 
particulaly at the the port side near the stern.  The gel coat is also 
coming away in places where the deck rolls up to form the side rail.  The 
dealer is attrubuting the cause to "voids" from when the glass was rolled at 
construction.  When the boat was delivered there was clearly a repair to the 
antiskid in that area done at the factory where a triangular piece of anti 
skid had been let into the deck.  The lifting of the anti skid only became 
clear in the last few weeks but tapping with a hammer shows the affected 
area is quite large.  There are other smaller ares elsewhere on the deck. 
The dealer is proposing to drill small holes and "inject" resin, possibly 
preceded by acetone to "dry out any damp".  A professional fibreglasser 
specialising in boat repair has recommended that the only solution is to cut 
out the affaected ares and apply syandard repair techniques which will be 
very obvious as the diamond pattern will be lost.

I would welcome comments on either repair method as the situation cannot be 
left unattended, especially as winter is coming with risk of freezing damage 
if the water has really got in.  I have not yet been able to check with a 
damp meter

Thanks

Jerry Brown
Indigo
925#
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