stephennicholls531
Active Member
My ‘77 DE had floatation foam - and it was more than just bit of a job to get that waterlogged mess out...so you are lucky that either someone else has already removed it, or it never had it. I had a guy come in and spray-in fresh closed-cell foam into my project when I was ready for it.
Lots of folks don’t like flotation foam, but - (in my opinion) after all the work you’re going to have to do to get your project back in the water - it’d be a real bummer if a log or dead-head pokes a hole in the hull and you lose the boat (and all that work) in minutes, rather than having flotation foam giving you a chance to recover the boat, and then make repairs.
BTW - Spray-in closed-cell foam, properly applied, is much better than the original poured-in foam that was in my DE. I noted - while removing the old stuff - that in the bow area (where the poured-in foam was over 12” deep) the foam had overheated while curing and scorched the glass and stringers...
Lots of folks don’t like flotation foam, but - (in my opinion) after all the work you’re going to have to do to get your project back in the water - it’d be a real bummer if a log or dead-head pokes a hole in the hull and you lose the boat (and all that work) in minutes, rather than having flotation foam giving you a chance to recover the boat, and then make repairs.
BTW - Spray-in closed-cell foam, properly applied, is much better than the original poured-in foam that was in my DE. I noted - while removing the old stuff - that in the bow area (where the poured-in foam was over 12” deep) the foam had overheated while curing and scorched the glass and stringers...