Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

"Mark" wrote in message
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I have not seen the (as she referrs to them) "bubbles" yet myself, but
will ask her to show me this weekend. I have been fortunate not to
run into this problem with my own boat (yet), but as you say, there is
lots if info available online, much of it conflicting. This is part
of the reason I posted to the newsgroups, to get some general
guidenace, direction, and first hand experience from the user's side
(versus from the various sales pitches from mechanics and surveyors).

Any guidance or suggestions (good websites or articles) in the interim
would be much appreciated, and help us prepare to ask the right
questions. Thanks in advance.

Mark

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message
et...
"Mark" wrote
The questions I am asking are merely to help her (and myself)
understand if and how bubbles can start to form, or were they
potentially ovelooked (raising the question of the value of getting
a survey done).

When you say bubbles, are you talking about gel-coat blisters, or
something else? There's lots of info online about blistering, much of
it conflicting.

Mark, you're an idiot. Your very first concern seems to be how to stick
it to a surveyor just because the boat developed some small gel coat
blisters around the waterline. If you didn't see them or the surveyor
didn't see them during the time of the survey then it stands to reason
they weren't there.

Before I bought my boat I had it surveyed and the surveyor never
mentioned the condition of my seacocks in his list of problems with the
boat. I called him up and asked him about them and he got very
defensive, especially after my question: Where are they?

He rattled off three locations and after I got off the phone I looked in
those three places, they were not there. I looked around and eventually
located them. The one for the head had the handle off of it, so he
probably didn't test it. The one for the engine water intake was a
rusted ball valve which, when I tried to close it, snapped off in my
hand with hardly any pressure. The third was okay.

Suffice it so say, just because the surveyor and new boat owner don't
know something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Stephen