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Starboard side deck near cabin top. Can see the partial "still looks good from my house" soaking wet core forward most..still yellow, not the dark brown, black of punkiness.

Sharing the rotted deck core photos. No wonder it was so mushy under foot and hollow sounding.

I reached the download limit. Here's the cabin top with rotted core and the top cleared of balsa and mast step.

Anyone know what the materials the mast step support beam on the 1973 Typhoons were made from?

Here are some photos of the cabin top with rotten core and with core removed. I am curious to know what the material is on the cabin top mast step beam support. I drilled a hole and the same colored plastic type material came out on the bit. I am hoping it is sound enough to plug the original mast s...

Hi, Been slowly picking away at the deck and have made a big push. I cut out a lot of the port and starboard side deck core. Will leave fore deck for the future as it has some punky spots. One thing I did noticed on the starboard side forward deck, the core seems wet but still in good shape....just ...

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Might to go look at it.

Howdy, Thanks for the comments. Finally got some weather in the 50-60% humidity range to lay out the balsa core. So I did just that and then laid up two layers of biaxial 1708. I will need to sand and fair and add another layer of 1708 and build up the starboard side forward section as there's bit o...

Port and Starboard sides cleaned up, beveled- have to move the cover post out of the way, but have a way of knowing where to end the after deck job. Yaahooo!

I think I'm on the slippery slope here. I wanted a place where I could stop the after deck re-core and not have the epoxy flow down into the rotten port/starboard decks so I cut about a foot forward of the deck to make a "clean break". And of course.....found more rot. The rabbit hole of d...

Thanks Jeff. Yes, I'm opting for the balsa wood as it is what was used and I plan to seal all deck hardware properly- oversized hole, fill w/ epoxy, chamfer then butyl tape. I have some bits of G10 that I plan to use as backing plates for hardware. I was thinking the same about new fiberglass deck.....

Repairs done to the cut through with CSM.

IMG_4026.jpg Howdy All, I've gotten motivated to start the re-coring of the Typhoon after deck. I have attached some pics. One note, if someone else attempts this and you are wanting to remove the deck skin- cut 4-1/4 inches forward from the stern. I ended up making more work for myself but cutting...

Glad you found something newer and closer? to you. The bulkheads looked soft and were delaminating. But never mind #11. You found and '82! That's great. I am redoing my cushions based on Sailrite's website videos- They show how to make templates and patterns for making cushions. Spent $500 in materi...

Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look as Annabel is in the yard on the hard for the winter.

Migs

Howdy Triton704, I've had good luck with the website searchtempest? All one word. It crawls the web for CL listings. I know of a Typhoon for sale around Eagle Lake, NY...near Saratoga Lake. The present owner purchased it from the Saratoga Lake Club this summer. It is hull no. 11. I looked at it but ...