This afternoon I wanted somewhere much easier to work, so I got after opening up the area around the exhaust. I know you all know about this problem area, in fact I even knew about it before I bought this boat. But what is hard to get is just how wet this balsa can actually be. Here is a link to a super short video I just did shortly after opening the skin up. Plan is to let the reasonable areas dry out and then do some core replacement around the exhaust. I know some have moved the exhaust up in the transom, but I am thinking about adding a swing down transom step, so the lower exhaust position is better for that. I will be going through all of your info on best practices for this part of the repair.
