Nav wrote:
You have no gel coat?

Well, I'd be the better for losing a few pounds... oh you mean the boat...

No. The tugboat was peeled & barrier coated long ago. There is a brief
and ambiguous line in the maintenance log that I think refers to it.
Anyway, the barrier coat may not have been well applied or it may have
failed due to subsequent poor handling... grinding through it in a few
dozen small spots is not good.

However, the fiberglass is all perfectly sound. There was no osmosis
into the laminate at all... in fact, not even any stranded spots (places
where the mat wasn't saturated with resin). Very careful and close
inspection of the whole thing, including the thru-hulls and rudder post
aperture, revealed no trouble. I'm confident that our coating was put on
correctly (if yoou want something done right etc etc) and the hull is
both perfectly sound & well protected for the future.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King