The original floors are foam filled and covered with a thick layup of fiberglass. Now, we all know about how poorly polyester resin adheres to cured polyester resin, and the terrifically prudent thing to do would be to grind out the old floors and install new ones with heavy layup and epoxy. But I've searched the web and not found significant accounts of a Pearson 10M's floors tearing up in a grounding. So this one thing - one thing - I think I'll skip. Neptune please take pity on a poor man's keel.
The bilge was pretty ugly. The limber holes were just rubber hose stuck under the glass as it went in, and they'd long since come loose and let water into the foam. The surface of the bilge is filled with nooks and crannies for gunk to hang out. I ground out the limber holes a bit, then mixed up batches of thickened epoxy resin and mooshed and mashed and squarshed it up into the foam and gaps hiding under there. Then I slipped strips of 10 oz cloth cut on bias through the holes and wrapped them up the sides of the floors.
Hopefully, this will seal the foam and also allow easier bilge drainage to the very small forward lowest point to which the bilge pump intake will run.
Meanwhile, Lisa's been busy in the driveway finishing this:
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