The boats dont give us much choice sometimes on when the downtime will be.
If you just want to go sailing glue some plywood over the affected area, I have seen boats sail a whole season with crunchy decks, often one of the stringers has cracked and is making lots of noise but it isn't that big of a deal. The deck will be destroyed during replacement anyway.

Better to sail a class like the Mozzy where you can come up with a sensible repair rather then some of the crazy fixes they come up with to repair Lasers and Hobies and remain within their class rules.

Darryn