Maybe a picture would be better than words: http://www.wavetrain.net/boats-a-gear/275-fiberglass-boatbuilding-internal-hull-structures
To be clear: floors run athwartships, stringers run longitudinally the length of the vessel, generally parallel to the keel. In Joel's case, I wouldn't really call these stringers, although they run longitudinally; and they're not floors. They're the longitudinal support for the mast step. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let me see if I get it right: > There are "floors" (which I was calling stringers) on the port and starboard > side of my mast step. They are hollow glass like an upside down U. The ones > on the starboard side have limber holes near the step without any tubing. > The floors to port do not have limber holes. Water accumulates on the port > side between the floors. The head and dinette are to port near one of the > floors, and the bottom of the finished panel that is attached to the bulkhead > has delaminated from 30 years of moisture. I'm going to drill limber holes > in the port floors. I may epoxy in tubes. I'm not sure what I can do about > the wood panel unless I remove the fiberglass dinette (not likely).
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