The surveyor found what he said was wet deck near a stanchion aft of the shrouds, at the base are spider-cracks. I’ve sounded that area of the deck myself, measured with a moisture meter and found nothing notable - but I’m no expert.
I even drilled a pilot hole down below to see if water was in the core from the underside and it's dry as a bone. Which tells me the spider cracking around the base of the stanchion is compromising the integrity of the top layer. And if you put pressure on it it flexes. But so do other stanchions. Also there’s about 4-5” of solid fibreglass from the hull/deck joint around the entire perimeter of the boat which takes up about 60% of the area where the spider cracks emanate out from. I might grind it out and re-epoxy. Also when I jump up and down forward/aft of the chainplates there’s creaking. The only thing I can connect it with is the teak woodwork down below where it meets the deck is perhaps rubbing. Otherwise it’s pretty sound and there’s no obvious flexing on the deck other than at the stanchion. Anyone else have a squeaky deck? And I assume that any and all of this is pretty much on par with a boat of this vintage. I just like the idea that it’s something I can resolve. Chris Hobson S/V Going 1980 C&C MKI Hull 615
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