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Default A case of identifying Osmosis

On Jan 26, 5:30*pm, Martin Petersen Martin.Petersen.
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Hi, i would really like your judgement on whether or not the spots on
the hull of this boat, reveals a case of osmosis?

I just bought this one, a Hurley 22 from 1971, despite a lack of
thorough knowledge on boats. I have talked to several knowledgeable and
helpful people, who states it to be in fairly good condition. From the
outside it certainly does not show any hints of osmosis, but then i
look at this picture and get nervous. I havent heard of cases in which
it could be identified from the inside despite looking healthy on the
outside, but i cant help thinking that the spots on the very left of
this photo kind of looks like osmosis.

What do you think?

Best regards, Martin

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Martin Petersen



This looks like it's dirty & not in need of TLC, but not osmotic. My
own boat (an old Ensenada 20) has several spots where it looks like
they just fiberglassed some wooden blocks inside the hull with cable
wrapped around them during the boat build (presumably to lift it from
the mold) then just cut the cables flush and left it all, so some of
these things may be artifacts of the boat's original construction.