puffcard wrote:
I would fix that, grind back and add lots of glass. I know that is a weak spot on T37. You don't get surface/flex cracks there, that is structural. You have to question the glass there has how much of the designed strength is left? There was a T37, lost it's rudder off the Va Capes 35 years ago and washed up in the wildlife preserve. I was on a salvage team that went in to find and salvage Nothing bigger than 6x6 piece of the boat. Almost kept me from buying a T37.
I will second this recommendation to grind it back--this is likely structural and you will see more when you grind some of it away. However, seems like this is the rudder stop that might have been redone at some point?--hard to get the orientation. If you are backing fast and crank the rudder one way this could be the result when it flips to the stop with great force at that point.
FWIW.