h17 deck delamination repair with photos

here are some photos of the extensive repair delamination on the deck of my h17.
as you can see the intervening material was crushed and wet, so I had to wait for a complete drying with the help of a hair dryer.
I chose not to call the repair eseguitre interposed but with many layers of fiberglass.
finishing was carried out with putty and then the deck has been painted.
the area is now very stiff.

You cannot post pictures directly from your computer. They have to be hosted on line somewhere, like Photobucket or Flickr. Even Facebook will work.

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http://s1094.photobucket.com/albums/i45 ... 7%20delam/

You kind of took the slash-and-burn method of repairing this. Rarely is this level of repair required for deck delamination.

From the photo above, you can see where you were chipping away at the foam to get it off the lower glass skin - the bond was still good, so why remove/replace it?

From the looks of it (and admittedly, it's tough to see the extent of the original damage from photos), this might have been repaired with epoxy injection without ripping the deck off.

surely a repair with resin injection was the most-easy.
in my case, unfortunately, the deck was too soft.
In fact, the lower layer of fiberglass had completely lost resin and it was only one layer of tissue.
Furthermore, the intervening material was completely soaked and crushed.
so I preferred a root system, being the area of the deck where you sit in even feet.
now the boat runs perfectly and I am satisfied with the repair.

That's all that really matters.

Hello I'm just bought a H17, unfortunately could i not be on place to inspect the boat.
Therefore i realised the problem too late with deck delamination.
I have seen that i got the same problem that you described in your exellent post on Hobie forum.

I have some questions however, you didn't placed any foam between the bottom layer and the top layer
It was the sandwich constructed from the factory, why did you choose to just lay epoxy?

Then i wonder you took away the top layer with the pattern couldn't you not put it back ?
Have you thought about making patterns on deck again ?

It looks that you not used gelcoat as top layer why not ?
Do you think that it is possible to make a pattern in a gel coat layer when it still is what i meant if i let it dry i little bit ?

It will please me if you have time to answer this questions
Greeting from Sweden.