Boat on the hard
Starting to review what I have and how much work need to do.
Pressure washed bottom first.
From the first glance ! found only two major blisters.
Work team - Me and my son Vic. (Great thanks him for help)
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| After hard 2 days of work. |
Blisters
Opened some biggest blisters. Looks like "water" (rein soup) was collected under first layer of CSM which was directly under gel coat.
General observation #1 Actually this first layer of CSM looks like "dry" layed. Not sure it is caused by osmosis or just it is how boat was built.
General observation #2 Port side has a lot of small craters looking mode like just gel-coat voids than blisters.
Starboard side before digging in.
Starboard
Next tasks - cleanup old paint, open blisters.
End of the day on hard 1
I get angle grinder and worked on opening all real and potential blisters, to the end of the day theirs number get closer to 50-60.
Mr Vic worked on cleaning old bottom paint. about 1/3 of one side were sanded.
End of day2
Our work area
Strut
Due to strut is not sitting tight, I dig out strut mounting and found pretty interesting solution.
Bronze strut inserted in the slot on in the skeg and thru-bolted. Bolts and nuts are hidden in the cavity in the skeg, then they was covered with pieces of plywood and over-glassed.
Problem found - one of bolts appeared not tighten at all.
Keel
When i started inspect boat bottom I found a very intriguing heir line crack all perimeter around the keel.
I decided to open it and see What is going there. As far as i know before my keel has encapsulated ballast and has no bolts, so I assumed the keel fiberglass was formed with the hull as one molded piece and connection is very reliable.
But my finding is in some conflict of this idea. I found the keel was made independently and then attached to the hull, but how???? Questioning on the forum does not help any. Whatever keel is stable, no real movement in between parts between hanging and standing on the keel. so, looks like I will just patch this area and be happy. Maybe put 1-2 layers of glass.
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| Hull to keel transition |
rudder
Found I found 3 pretty heavy damages on the hull at water line level. One of them wass too deep that i get all way through the hull trying to get to end of de-lamination and made a hole.
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| Couple smaller hits need to be fixed |
Rudder
A lot of small and couple deep blisters, one on the rear edge of the rudder, but surprise dry foam core.
End of the day2 photos.
Way home
I had meet a deer, adult deer, on the high way 290 at the speed 70 MPH, there where no time to break, it appeared at my view at about 30-40ft, fortunately I turned side instead of breaking and ended up with couple dents on fender and passenger door "below" waterline". Mostly deer hit me with his movement energy, not the car hit him directly
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| After hitting a deer |
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