It's Alive..... (I couldn't restrain myself) Recommend further evaluation and needed repairs by a qualified environmental contractor..... and I am sticking to it. GO In a message dated 4/10/2014 4:03:59 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com writes: Something is growing through the fiberglass headliner above the v-berth in my Montgomery 17. When I pulled the pulpit yesterday morning there were a couple of places water got into the hull beneath each side of the pulpit. I can see a half moon of white powder on the headliner radiating out from each side of the bow from where the fasteners leaked. There also within the half moon of water damage was a "crop" of brown things growing upside down through the fiberglass headliner where the wet out of cloth did not fill the voids in the fiberglass cloth. They looked like cork material. I brushed them off and set off a mold bomb and buttoned up the boat for the day. This morning after opening up the boat there was a new crop of these brown things growing down from the headliner where they had been yesterday. With the observed growth rate I suspect they are some sort of fungus like a mushroom. I suspect that some spore or other found its way inside the balsa material between the deck and headliner and is living off the water supply and the balsa. Although the deck sounds solid over most of the area I suspect that where the half moon of water stain shows on the headliner is the extent of the compromised (colonized?) balsa and should probably be removed. If I was a gambling man I would epoxy the soft spot in the deck and do the epoxy in the drilled out fastener hole thing as well as slap a layer of fiberglass cloth and resin over the water stain down below in hopes of smothering the new occupants. Any thoughs on this situation would be welcomed. Tom B