Hi guys,
just wondering if i could get some advice on how to repair the deck on my sailing dinghy! The picture shows the area of de-lamination (the green rectangle) , the only stress that this section goes through is when I stand on it whilst sailing, however the top skin has come away from the foam core, and I have a feeling the bottom skin has split along the underside of the 'v', so as you can imagine, as you put weight on the section, it deflects around 1-2cm, and makes crunching noises as the foam deforms.
I have had a quick attempt at repairing this by drilling a series of holes, and injecting resin so that it saturates the foam, however this still hasnt worked, and the section still deflects when pressure is applied!
My current plans are: wet lay-up a ~20 x 120cm piece of heavy biax weave along the centerline and hope for the best, but i am now doubting myself as the top skin of the sandwich is not fully attached to the foam, sadly i do not have access to the underside so cant strengthen there! The direction of fibres is shown by the red lines (45-deg from top to bottom in picture)
I want to spend the least amount of work time (curing time is irrelevant) because i want to get sailing! so chopping out the section and replacing is a route i dont really want to take!
any help would be muchly appriciated!
- Henry