I finally started gutting the Kona ! After removing the carpet and plywood where the front seats was I noticed what I would call gussets  there is three on each side coming off the stringers. The one in the middle looks as if it has a 1 x on each side and then filled with some kind of epoxy. My question is are these original to the boat or been added. Basicly not sure what to do with these, thought of cutting them out and glassing in new one's  Maybe Frankloc will chime in since he just rebuilt his Kona.

Started sanding down top paint and found original jelcoat under paint looks good so far well see what the rest looks like might not have to repaint 

I lived in cocoa bch for a while before moving to san diego...Where do you boat? Intercoastal or is there a freshwater spot....When I lived there it seemed alot of people would boat near the b-line/cape canaveral area. Looks like you gots some work to do....

I lived in cocoa bch for a while before moving to san diego...Where do you boat? Intercoastal or is there a freshwater spot....When I lived there it seemed alot of people would boat near the b-line/cape canaveral area. Looks like you gots some work to do....

Hey Mom...lol with other boats I had I/O I boated the intercoastal and the area your talking about ( ski island) also the st johns river which is fresh but since this is my first jet im undecided about boating in the intercoasal seeing how its brackish water and im a little concearned about what the salt would do corrosion wise