Removed Port Secondary Stringers and Glassed Outside of Port Outer Stringer

I got started on this project last night by cutting and grinding all the crummy secondary stringers out on the port side in the aft stateroom area. I figure I will never able to get at them again and they were really poorly done.



Here is a piece of one waiting for the trash man. If you look closely you can just see a very thin layer of glass over the foam. I was planning to just glass over them but they were so misshaped and poorly glassed in that I figured it would be easier and certainly stronger to remove them and start over.

So the removing part is done, complete with a good complete grinding of the whole area. Most of the glass work that was holding the secondary stringer in just pulled off the hull in pieces. The fresh glass work you see if the final glassing to the outboard side of the outer Port Stringer.

Here is a better shot of the forward part of it. I added 2 layers of 1.5 Oz. Mat and 24 Oz. Roving. The glass runs over the top of the stringer -down the side and out 6 inches or so onto the hull.

Here is the aft end of the same stringer.

Here is a closeup. You can plainly see the foam fillet I added at the junction of the hull bottom and the stringer. Makes for stronger glass work. I added about 1/4" to the thickness off the glass work on the sides. The glass work I did when building the tanks in came up and over the top of the stringer. Then when I glassed the top of the tank on it too went over the top of the stringer Now this final glasswork laps over the top of stringer as well. So the glass is about 3/8" think on the top of the stringer, very solid now.

One final shot of the very aft end of the stringer. So I am back to the aft end of this stringer again. I have re-glassed the entire length of this one and the greater part of the 2 main stringers. Only the starboard outer stringer in the aft cabin area is left and all the stringers will be done.