what I saw in the photo looked more like a broken piece of wood, but not rotted.  BTW Don, the reason for the name "dry rot" is simply because it occurs without the wood affected being exposed to wet conditions (humidity is another matter).

---- neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Thanks for that useful suggestion Don.
>
> I'll poke around some more in that area. Hopefully it's not dry rot.
>
> Neil.
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >   .... knowing your location and the climate there,
> > you are probably dealing what is weirdly called "dry rot"...There are plenty
> > of epoxy-based filler systems made that repair dry rot.
>
> >
> >    I use, for most all my composite repairs, the products known as WEST
> > System Epoxy, available online from many places.
>
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
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