Leak into Balsa Core from Deck Hardware

[44'cruisingcat]

Originally Posted by UFO

I'm leaning towards getting a surveyor out there to do a quick walk over and check out the core issue before flying over and seeing myself.

Where's the boat?

[44'cruisingcat]

Originally Posted by Fore and Aft

Raggedy Man not sure how you can believe that rot does expand beyond one or two cubes of balsa. Plenty of boats I have surveyed have had major balsa core deck rot all starting from just one or two deck fittings.
Cheers

On decks, the resin "dams" can fail due to people walking on deck in the affected area. The core goes soft, the deck flexes, the dam breaks, the water spreads and so on.

With neglect, what would and should be an easy fix turns into a major disaster.

To the OP. If the owner of the boat knew of this issue for 5 years and has done nothing to fix it, walk away. He doesn't deserve to sell his boat.

[Tillsbury]

If you’re still not convinced, watch the relevant parts of the “sail life” YouTube channel where he discovers and repairs the deck rot...

[UFO]

Originally Posted by 44'cruisingcat

To the OP. If the owner of the boat knew of this issue for 5 years and has done nothing to fix it, walk away. He doesn't deserve to sell his boat.

I have walked away, Broker was also not very helpful about this issue and many other questions - Who knows how bad it really is and what else would pop up that he has not been bothered to fix