Today while attempting to replace cracked
acrylic on our smaller
hatch that sits above our
galley area, we noticed
water oozing out so my boyfriend ripped out the entire
hatch and the
wood around the edges is rotted. It looks like a po attempted to mend the leak by applying tons of silicone, and perhaps tried to fix the
rot (there is hard chalky substance on one side, some
epoxy? on another side, and rotted
wood covered in silicone on some other sides). Yuck! So we are mulling over options...
Ps- we just finished a bit of
deck repair so have materials like new foam for
core,
epoxy, etc, handy at the moment.
A) perhaps fitting a larger hatch so we would be removing an extra inch or so on each side? Our hole is aprox. 10"x10", if we made it 12"x12" would it make is less sound?
B) scrape all the edges best we can (which is difficult because of all the random past material) and the replace with foam/epoxy similar to a
deck repair? My qualm with this is I don't think we will be able to scrape far enough to find good dry wood.
C) removing top layer and re-fiberglassing. Almost exactly what we did for the deck repair....
And I'll be glad to hear other suggestions too!