Let's say a foam sandwich deck got treated badly and got a crack. Are there ideas about how it might be possible to peel it off the hull?
I think I read somewhere that set/hardened epoxy can be defeated by high temperature. I tried to search for that fact, but could not find it. How high? It seems like these hulls will stand quite a bit of high temperature when you pour a ballast in them.
I have pretty good luck just pealing/breaking my epoxy apart on hulls. It holds like a son of a gun, but can be peeled or mostly peeled and then chisled from the deck flange in some stubborn spots.
I peeled a deck off from transom to bow on an old hull. I was curious what the bare hull would weigh without the heavy fiberglass deck. World's worst EC12 hull - 4 lbs even - just the bare hull. That one won't be being built up for regattas or even for Saturdays.
Scott