Soft Spot On Bass Boat Floor

A soft spot in a boat floor can be surprisingly tricky to diagnose.

Soft spot on bass boat floor. It also creates spaces where water can get deeper into the boat the floor and other areas. Depends on the kind of guy you are. The text book way of replacing the floor is to remove the consoles seat boxes and remove all. Even a gap as small as a nail head can wreak havoc on an otherwise healthy boat so when replacing flooring avoid nailing altogether.

A boat floor is not meant to have nails in it and doing so weakens the structure. If you hear a hollow sound you ll have an idea if there s a weak area. Getting ready for the fiberglass. We recommend tapping around the soft spot with the back end of a screwdriver.

Replacing the plywood in 1996 stratos bass boat. Yes yest either replace the floor if it is getting soft or disclose the soft spot and give the guy a deal based on floor replacment. Turned out the entire floor was rotten the stringers were rotten the transom was rotten etc. The soft spots tend to be small enough at first so you need to make sure that the overall surface you are working on allows you to apply the epoxy and fiberglass properly.

Our 34ft silverton aft cab had some soft spots on the deck so instead of ripping up and having to repair the gel coat we decided to attack it from underneath. Descriptionthis diy video shows how to fix a rotten boat floor. Sometimes there are softer mor flexible arias in a boat but if the floor is rotting it wont take but a year or two and the whole floor will be bad. When the sound becomes sharp and the material gives good feedback to the touch you know that it s stronger.