vas
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the picture doesn't show correctly Vas,
here is a pic made in daylight
the light brown parts, is the temporarely repair, new plywood, several layers filling complete gap between inner and outside shell, and sqeezed left and right between a frame, and the fairlead
you can see the darkbrown solid wooden stringer, just below the corner of the fairlead, I can confirm that this wood is still in impeccable condition,
the dark coller is from moisture under the gaffa tape
on the upper part of the hole, you can see the border of the orriginal plywood shell,
this looks a bit dark but also this is still in perfect condition, no rot at all !
fine,
Bart, don't waste your time thinking too hard on that, just reinforce, repair with ply, fair, get a couple of light mat with epoxy and finish it off, like the Canados guys did a couple of years ago.
Just find a solution for the vent gaps we're talking about. Worried that if the stringer is not running the whole length and width, you may get pockets where rain water can gather (and rot everything) Not sure that such a constructional method used by Canados will fair well with open vent holes...
cheers
V.