Yur crystal ball seems to be working well tonight Ebb.
What I intended to include but did not was that the epoxy that I can see on the edges of the voids does not appear to have much kind of thickening in it (pretty hard). Ironic, when I had asked Mike if he had misspoken when he talked about using thickened epoxy for this earlier in this thread (several months ago). Little did I know the question had so much to do with the repair the prior owner had done on my boat!But sitting here it looks like not enuf thickened epoxy(?) was used in the recore.
Anyway.... Yes. I will dry the foam core that I have exposed by removing the old skin, and cover it with several layers of mat. That is what I did on the Starboard side, and was able to match the deck pretty darn close (I can't see a difference).
The skin was not very thick (neither what I pulled off of the prior 'repair' or what I removed from the other side). Maybe an eighth at best, probably less then that. I used several layers of mat, and left the surrounding glass slightly proud. I then used a mix of west 405 and 407 filler thickened epoxy (still using up that darn west I bought for such a bargain way back when)....
I am gonna take the bow pulput off and re-bed it while I am at this... hope I don't find any more soft stuff..... I really would like to get the project list down into the low 30's![]()