When we bought the boat, we noticed and pointed out to the seller that the floor in the aft cabin was rotten, soft, baaaad. Captain discovered a leak (before we bought it and we had the owner fix the problem) and chalked it up as another project for later on.
You can see below the water damage.
So Captain pulled up the floor late this winter. Or really, just picked up hand fulls of wood fibers. It was that soft. He pulled it all out and cleaned up the area.
Captain checked in with ourlocal boat yard (Royal River Boatyard) if maybe they had some scraps of Teak & Holly flooring. And lucky us, they did! This saved us from buying a full size 4'x8' piece of flooring at around $200.00. They cut him a great deal on some odd shaped scrap.
Captain worked about a day measuring and laboring on the floor. First he traced the space using a piece of tar paper, since we didn't have the old piece of wood to use as a pattern (remember, it was rotten). Cutting, sanding and fitting it in wasn't a problem. More time was spent on varnishing, sanding, varnishing, more sanding, varnishing and sanding again. A final coat of varnish made for a super shiny floor! Fitting it into place was a dream and securing it with screws and wood plugs wasn't too bad either.
It is gorgeous!
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