Crabbing Skiff

By Sunday evening I had removed all the rot, cleaned and squared up (in a manner of speaking) the damage, measured and dry-fit a new keelson section, trunk log, trunk panel and a batten for good measure. 

On Friday night, just as I was wrapping up minor projects, I noticed the port side of the centerboard pivot bolt was recessed a little into its plywood case. A little rot around the bolt hole revealed itself to be a lot of rot in the case, all the way down into the keelson. Thank God that:

1) I caught this relatively early;

2) a previous keelson repair from ten years ago used so much epoxy filler that the rot stopped dead in its tracks about two thirds of the way back the centerboard case;

3) damage forward of the case is limited;

4) the bottom is heavily glassed, so structural integrity is still good, even though the bottom rotted through in a couple small places;

5) aforementioned bottom rot is very isolated.