herbt wrote:I put my full weight (190 lbs) on the cockpit deck near the rear cabin wall over the center cleat and the forward 6 inches of it sprang loose with a loud crack.. I managed to pull it back up with a couple of stainless steel screws that I left in and then ran a filet along both sides of the cleat under the deck. Hope this holds. The joint between the rear cabin wall and the cockpit deck held but I have been a little doubtful about this joint from the start, even with a large filet, so I am going to add another strip of 4 inch tape, feather it out and then double lap the glass from the rear cabin wall and the cockpit deck over it. Would hate to have this joint separate after finishing the boat. Just a word of caution to those yet to get to this place in their build.
Herb
I just now had this happen to me while working in the cockpit even though I made that cleat twice as wide as called for thinking I could avoid the problem. Also, I glassed the underside of the seat decks before installing them, but the seat deck flexes enough there that the cleat pulled loose. I'll need to pull it away as best I can and try to inject some epoxy in there and fillet along side too. I'm thinking of screws too. I think I'll put some doubling panels there also. I might wait until the boat gets flipped upside down to make it easier to do a good job.