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I am going through removing the decks on our 1983 IG right now and they looked in very similar condition to your photos. We had exposed screw heads, cracks in bead and then the driving factor for removing it, we had leaks into the cabin. We did also find a significant amount of glue holding...

As part of our currently on-going deck replacement on our 1983 Island Gypsy, we had our deck fills pulled off. In one case the fill happened to come with a significant part of the aft port fuel tank. :nonono: When we bought the boat in 2020 we knew this tank had been damaged by an exhaust leak...

Yes, we are planning on adding a few layers of fiberglass to strengthen the deck.

Just this week the yard just started pulling the teak decks from our 1983 aft cabin 44'. We had significant water coming into our aft stateroom (1" of rain produced about a gallon of water in the bucket) and the teak was weathered down to 1/4" in many places. We are at about 50 hours into the...

Thank you for the Kiwigrip suggestion. We were planning to do something along those on the lower/forward walk around. I'll look more into Kiwigrip there as we have no need to keep the teak look and we want something low maintenance. We do want to keep the teak look on the aft deck as we think...

Thank you all for the well wishes! Currently we are leaning towards fiberglassing the decks and then installing an alternative decking over it like SeaDek. We are eager to get away from leaky decks as the current deck is leaking onto our bed and fiberglass seems to offer a more permanent fix...

Hello! Long time lurker, finally worked up to sharing our story and hopefully engaging more with the forum. These forums have already been invaluable to answering many questions and providing guidance just from reading everyone else’s adventures. The wife and I purchased our 1983, Kong and...