Repair system and method for fiberglass boats

A minimally invasive method for repairing a moisture damaged wood corn boat hull comprising:

• Detecting troubled areas of the boat hull, said hull having inner and outer skins enclosing said wood core;
• Boring a relatively small hole through a skin at each troubled area;
• Applying heat to each of the troubled areas for drying out said troubled areas;
• After drying of the troubled areas, breaking up the moisture damaged wood core within each troubled area through said hole thereby forming wood particles within each troubled area;
• Removing the particles present in the troubled areas through said holes;
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• Restoring the troubled areas.

A method for repairing a boat hull having inner and outer skins comprising:

• Utilizing a moisture meter to locate areas containing moisture in said hull;
• Griding the boat hull into a grid pattern of labeled sections;
• Marking said grid sections with moisture readings;
• Identifying troubled areas of accumulated moisture as shown in said labeled sections;
• Making cavities within the hull of the boat between said inner and outer skins in said troubled areas through a small hole bored through a skin in each troubled area;
• Heating the troubled areas to dry out each cavity;
• Removing excess moisture in said cavities by heating and thereafter vacuuming out said cavities through each hole;
• Repeating and recording moisture readings in the labeled sections during treatment of said cavities to ascertain progress being made in drying out said cavities;
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• Filling said cavities with a filler material which hardens in place.

A method of repairing moisture damaged wood core boat hulls comprising the steps of:

• remotely identifying moisture damaged areas below a skin of the boat hull;
• boring a hole in said skin in each damaged area,
• applying heat to dry said moisture damaged areas,
• after the moisture damaged areas have dried, inserting a routing tool through a flexible conduit extending into each damaged area through said holes, routing the dried damaged wood and removing dried damaged wood core therefrom,
• inserting fill to replace removed wood core from damaged areas, and
• closing and re-sealing each said hole in said skin of said hull.