Dry starflite bow foam 45lbs including bulkhead

[aaronmt]

Well i just removed all the bow foam i used a full size shovel a gard shovel and a sawsall. I guess i wasnt to excited to see it completly dry in there but theres no way to tell if it is unless u get in there. After removing it all i put it in 5 large garbage bags and weighed it the best i could. Ive seen people posting any where from 80lbs to 150lbs for ones with wet foam but nobody has posted dry foam weight. i believe the savings on the dry is 45- 50 lbs. Not a huge savings but it is a alteast the savings in the exact spot these starflites need the to lose weight. :thumb: Oh and by the way start to finish time wasnt as bad as i thought about 2 hours maybe less if you have every thing ready to go prior to it. The pics of supergenius bow made it alot easier to just dive into not a clean job but not that bad unless your closterfobic. Aaron

[Boston Predictor]

cool, thats very helpfull, thanks. Today I was looking at the bow foam in my sportfire and there is more than I thought. Ive been pondering whether or not I should remove ALL the foam in my boat for a while, but its a daunting task. Hearing that the dry foam weighs that much, I wonder how much it ALL weighs....I think in the end, its worth it to get it all out.
Anybody know if it's possible to remove the foam under the floor without trashing the whole floor and stringer system?
I was thinking I could just cut the perimiter of the floor, pull the wood up, then I could Get the old foam out, fiberglassglass the wood back together and be done with it.... Probably impossible to do though.
I dont know whats under there, and I dont want to hack up the good floor. any ideas?:brickwall:

[Mark]

At 45 pounds it wasn't dry. Dry foam weighs almost nothing. I dried my floor foam out with the idea of replacing it. In the end I threw it out. It couldn't have been more than 10 pounds total.
BP you don't want to tear up the floor if don't have to. Cutting, glassing, recarpeting, big job! Possible? Absolutely. One thing guys do when they are cutting a just a section to be replaced, is they cut on a 45 degree angle and then the piece can be set right back in even if it is not over a stringer.

[aaronmt]

The weight of 45 lps was including all the weight savings, the wood blukhead obviously the heaviest part, foam only had a very liitle spot where it was wet maybe a5 inch circl out of the whole thing. Aaron