Wylie Coyote is a cold molded 40′ racing boat built in the 80s. She was designed by Tom Wylie for a Minnesota client and has spent it entire life on Lake Superior. We have been working with the current owners for the past few years to bring her back to good health. Her deck was constructed with a foam core sandwiched between a fiberglass top layer and a 1/4″ marine plywood bottom layer. Over the years water had migrated in to the core and was running out to the gunwale and degrading the hull deck joint. Typically when we repair deck core we remove the wet core which is usually balsa and is rotted. In this case we had the owners drill lots of small holes in the under side of the deck in the wet areas and after two years the core had dried out. Then we were responsible for refinishing the top of the deck and repairing the gunwale. All deck holes were filled with epoxy which the above photo illustrates.
The picture above shows the deck edge after we routed back the degraded material.
In this picture we are gluing in new deck edge. We used western red cedar that we fiberglassed.
Here we are sanding back the fiberglass on the deck and hull to fair in the new fiberglass
This picture illustrates a section of the cabintop companionway that we repaired.
Project: Wiley Coyote
Wylie Coyote is a cold molded 40′ racing boat built in the 80s. She was designed by Tom Wylie for a Minnesota client and has spent it entire life on Lake Superior. We have been working with the current owners for the past few years to bring her back to good health. Her deck was constructed with a foam core sandwiched between a fiberglass top layer and a 1/4″ marine plywood bottom layer. Over the years water had migrated in to the core and was running out to the gunwale and degrading the hull deck joint. Typically when we repair deck core we remove the wet core which is usually balsa and is rotted. In this case we had the owners drill lots of small holes in the under side of the deck in the wet areas and after two years the core had dried out. Then we were responsible for refinishing the top of the deck and repairing the gunwale. All deck holes were filled with epoxy which the above photo illustrates.
The picture above shows the deck edge after we routed back the degraded material.
In this picture we are gluing in new deck edge. We used western red cedar that we fiberglassed.
Here we are sanding back the fiberglass on the deck and hull to fair in the new fiberglass
This picture illustrates a section of the cabintop companionway that we repaired.
Deck core being replaced on the port aft deck.
Bruce is glueing in new cedar deck edging.