Flooring options for rehabbing 94 Baja

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Hi All,

Recently I have been renovating my 94 Baja Islander and have replaced 2 sections of rotten flooring and just peanut buttered all of the gaps and placed my first later of 1.5oz chopped strand mat on top. I am planning on placing one more later of CSM on top of that and then laying down seadeck w/ contact cement on top of it. I didnt plan on gel coating the glass as nothing will be seen after the seadeck is down. Anyone have any suggestions on things that I am doing wrong or things that will make my seadeck stick best. Do i really need a gelcoat or a exterior oil based paint before placing the seadeck down?

Newbie here and trying to make the repair last at least 10 years with proper care...

Thanks!
 

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alldodge

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Ensure your tabbing is good, smooth out then epoxy paint
 

tpenfield

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What did you cover up with the new flooring? Good stuff or bad stuff?

No need to gelcoat. Epoxy coating would be fine.
 

Chris1956

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A layer or two of fiberglass mat, saturated with polyester resin will seal the deck well. Then carpet or whatever, to make it look nice.

Was the foam flotation dry? Were the stringers solid? Is the new decking solidly attached (screws are best) to the stringers?
 

Scott Danforth

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the flooring always rots after the stringers and transom. did you replace those first?
 
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Thanks for the tips!

The rot was very isolated. What happened was, where the gas line came into the boat there was a nice gap that was left when the boat was built. When the boat was reupholstered, it seems like the covers started to let some water in right next to the fuel line on the port side. Transom doesn't leak, engine mounts seem very solid, rest of the deck is also super solid. Then the area around the ski locker was also starting to rot. The stringers seemed solid as well, all of the screws sunk in fine. The area towards the transom that was replace what just a piece of treated plywood laying on top of either stringer with no fiberglass treatment at all. So I took all of that out replaced with marine ply and glassed it in. If this boat was worth 20-30k I might have rebuilt the entire port side of the boat, but that wasn't in the timeline or the scope of work that was need in my opinion.

Does anyone have a product recommendation for an epoxy coating?
 

Scott Danforth

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guy a lottery ticket as you are the only one that has only found rot in the floor and not wet foam below or rotten stringers.

seriously buy a lottery ticket prior to the luck running out.

as for an expoy coating, bilge kote with a filler for the low spots, then bilge kote over everything else.
 
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