A year or two after painting the cabin, I acquired a moisture meter. While none of the decks were soft or bouncy, I felt that there were areas of damp balsa core. The moisture meter proved me right, and I set about rectifying it. After marking out all the damp areas, I removed the top skin/non-skid with a dremel tool using cut off wheels. After getting the top skin off ( which still remained firmly attached to the wet balsa core), I put the winter cover on with a solar vent installed to dry things out for the winter. I figured about April or May the weather would be warm enough to start fiber glassing, epoxying, and painting.
As you can see it took some serious tools to remove the top skin, using prybars, chisels, and hammer. Bottom pics show foredeck & side deck cleaned and ready to dry out for the winter. I opted to work from the top and replace the non skid, having gravity in my favor, as opposed to saving the non skid and, fighting gravity and working from the inside.
