I finally got around to looking inside the mast step of my recently-acquired 1973 Minifish, and noticed that the inside of the mast step is gouged or worn away on both sides near the top. Is this something I should be worried about, and try to fix somehow? I've never done anything with fiberglass, and have no real desire to start now. Most of the inner surface is smooth, like the outer hull, but in these two places it is bumpy. Here are some pictures:
The last picture also shows a recessed ring between the hull and the mast step, going all the way around, showing that same bumpy under-layer. In contrast I saw the following picture on Facebook of a 2006 Sunfish with a split in the mast step and I see that everything is smooth, and the mast step shades smoothly into the hull, without this recessed ring, or anything else revealing that bumpy under-layer.
So is this a problem? I don't want to end up like this picture, also from Facebook, showing catastrophic failure of a Laser mast-step:
The last picture also shows a recessed ring between the hull and the mast step, going all the way around, showing that same bumpy under-layer. In contrast I saw the following picture on Facebook of a 2006 Sunfish with a split in the mast step and I see that everything is smooth, and the mast step shades smoothly into the hull, without this recessed ring, or anything else revealing that bumpy under-layer.
So is this a problem? I don't want to end up like this picture, also from Facebook, showing catastrophic failure of a Laser mast-step:
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