On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:47:18 GMT, Cindy Ballreich
wrote:

Shane wrote:

The link below has some pictures of a 1977 Catalina 27. I was hoping
someone might comment on the damage to the keel ... i.e. how serious
and cost of repair. Any other comments would be appreciated as well
(I am looking to buy this boat).

http://home.fnal.gov/~dschmitz/photo.../sailboats.htm

You might want to carefully check the interior of the boat for
distortions. I once saw a Catalina 30 with similar damage. The
force of hitting a rock flexed the hull hard enough to knock the
bulkheads out of alignment. The most obvious symptom was the head
door not being able to close.


From personal experience,

Have a surveyor check the hull for delamination. An encounter with a
rock produced some slight keel damage, but caused the fiberglass mats
to separate.

I saw another boat in which the stringers separated from the hull
after a close encounter of a rock kind.

Jack