Ran across this on the web. I was always under the assumption you cut the old stringer out, replaced it and re glassed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRsd...QHr_qEogZsBsVw

Thats a totally acceptable way of fixing a stringer...


on a 25 year old bayliner with a 120 hp motor that will never go more than 25 miles an hour,

Holy ****!!! But he used Epoxy right??? He just as well had dumped the epoxy in a mud hole.

It seems like that could provide decent strength if he had dried the cavity thoroughly first and as long as there was no water intrusion into the transom. I don't know though. Glad my boat has composite stringers.

Lol..epoxy is a surface bond, relying on surface prep.... you think he prepped the inside of those stringers?? plus an old wellcraft is most likely poly... epoxy and poly arent the best of friends....

i thought epoxy would bond to anything! but not the opposite... guess i was wrong... but i doubt ... ???

Ya know.......ive always wondered ever since vacuum infusion came on the scene, what if you sealed off all the drill holes etc on the stringer and just infused the rotted stringer with some slow cure epoxy and let it cure solid? Obviously this would only work if the rot is still fairly solid and not a pile of dust at the bottom of the shell of whats left inside the stringer......any thoughts from the guys that work in the industry like Glassdave? Sure would be easier than cutting it open and digging all the rot out etc...with no oxygen i think it would stop any more rot from happening with whats left there.

Could you just trim the top off, dig out the rotten wood and fill it with one of the pourable transom epoxy? Asking for a friend.

you certainly could and on a boat like this it would probably work fine for a while but at the end of the day it is still a half-azzed (for lack of a better term) way to do it. I cringe when i see these videos and hope people see it for what it is. . . . a hack job. But worse would be for someone to do this kinda crap to dump a boat selling it.


this might be one of the hack-iest videos i have ever seen on the subject . . . . soooooo much misinformation

I almost can’t believe what I just watched ! 👎