40 Post sport fisher (wood)

congratulations

The wooden Posts were quite the thing in their day.I believe they built a 37' and the 40' if my memory serves me.There are still several around here in CT that I see every summer they are good looking boats.As you get into your project post some photos of what woodwork you are doing or need to do.Although I only have fiberglass boats presently,I am and always will be a wooden boat guy at heart and still help friends hands on or just with advice on reframing,replacing planks or transoms.

Good luck with your new boat!

If you are planning on keeping the boat it is extremely important to keep the bottom painted annually. I would haul the boat out asap and check the extent of the worm damage. It should have a sacrificial worm shoe on the bottom of the keel. If the worms get into the keel it could be an expensive repair. You really should have looked at the bottom before you bought her, but I know how that goes. A worm shoe is just a piece of 1 1/2 to 2" thick piece of creosoted wood with a piece of tar paper between it and the keel. At least that is how it was done on the Gulf coast.

I've also seen a sheet of copper between the keel and the shoe.

WOW, good luck, please take and "post" detailed pictures

I have filled wormholes in keels where there were only one or two holes with thickened epoxy after hooking the worm out if it was there.Patching planks,whether rotted,flayed ends at butt blocks or worm damage is not a wise thing to do. Damaged planking needs to be replaced.At this point the most important thing you can do is hire a surveyor familiar with wooden boats so you can get insurance and good advice at the same time.A good surveyor will inspect the scantlings,remove screws from the planks in strategic places,especially the garboard planks and check the condition of the fasteners,thus giving you much needed guidance as what to do first.
Good luck.

If it was my boat that plank would certainly be replaced.
Get a surveyor or a boatwright to inspect and sound the bottom,especially the butt blocks and garboards. If the condition of that plank is just an exception compared to the rest of them you may get off easy.
Whatever course you decide to take remember that the bottom of a boat is everything and it's structural integrity must be in excellent condition.

Congratulations and good luck with the new boat.

we will be interested in your progress and prolly all of us would like your updates and pictures.

Regards

I'm almost sure I was looking at your boat out of the water today and actually inquiring about buying it. Is your boat in FTL on the hard right now? Boat's actually in pretty nice condition aside from the rot (assuming I was looking at the right boat), she's nicely preserved for her age. My first boat was almost a wooden Post but right before I closed, Hurricane Andrew changed things a bit.

Regardless, congrats on the purchase.

If you look at his posts up above, he says right now it's out of the water and located in FTL. Chances are it's the same boat. So how bad is the bottom in? What do you think it would take to fix the bottom? I think it would help our poster out a lot to have someone's opinion that's seen it.

I think that before I would pay to have it done I would find another wooden boat that has had it applied and both speak to the owner and look at the boat's bottom to see how it is holding up.

Chemical patch repairs on the bottom: Wood swells,epoxy,polyester or vinylester resins,thickened or not,do not.Any resin patch repair done on the bottom needs to be completely covered and made watertite or the swelling wood will force it off the wood eventually.Your idea about this product theoretically would cover the repairs,but is it compatible with epoxy? If it is and your bottom is sound,ie; all fasteners tight and planks in good shape,your idea would have merit.

It's amazing how quickly damage occurs when you neglect a wood boat for a year or two. Goodluck with your project and she has beautiful lines. I wouldn't put anything on the bottom except traditional bottom paint and primer and would religiously haul it yearly. Wood swells and contracts and most coatings do not. Paint the bilges well.