Trojan Boat Forum

just purchased a 1974 trojan sea raider, the flybridge was removed a few years back and the roof had soom rot on the corners over the back deck. can i remove the rot back to good material and scarf in new material or would it be best to somehow replace the whole top

Welcome aboard.

Several here have a boat similar to yours and I'm sure someone will be along soon to offer advice.

That would depend on how bad it is . If its not too bad cut or dig out the bad section and replace/repair . I would use a good epoxy to seal it

I am forgetting - did the '74 have wooden roof with vinyl over or was it glassed by then? My father had a '69 28-footer that we had to do the roof on.... at first we got away with digging out the bad wood, zapping with git-rot, and filling. Eventually it got to the point that we pulled the drip-rail, peeled the vinyl back, and replaced the bad ply and edge piece. The edge piece was a bugger because of the contours, but we eventually managed to shape a piece of oak. The ply was easy.

Getting 20 year old vinyl off, and then stretched back over it without tearing was less easy... Plus these days you might have trouble finding ply the exact same thickness as the 35+ year old stuff on the boat... these days an inch doesn't appear to be what it used to be ...

Tim if you decide to replace you may find this of interest


http://www.trojanboats.net/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=5262

I wonder if you bought my old 74 Searaider. I sold it many years ago, it had a flybridge than. I'm in the Lake Erie/Lake St. Clair area.