"Bob" wrote in message
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Dear skip
please describe your bottom history.
im very interested in you "peel job" and "barrier coat" and blister
job... and how your bottom looks now?
Bob


Hi, Bob, and circumstantially, Wilbur,

The bottom history is that before we owned the boat, and perhaps before our
seller did, it was peeled. I know nothing of the attempts, if any, to dry
it out.

However, I can tell you for sure that there was massive blistering which we
addressed, at a surface level, during our refit before our launch 4 years
ago.

However, especially as to Wilbur, we've learned a lot as a product of a
surveyor on a neighboring boat proposing something entirely
counterintuitive - wash the boat with water, of all things, once it's opened
up.

I'll leave the research which proves why that's right to those interested,
but it suffices to say that Wilbur's correct in the appearance. Most of the
small repairs during our initial refit we did are stellar. A major repair,
around the rudder curve in the skeg, is bone dry compared to the rest of the
hull, which ranges from "OK" to "OUCH!"

The solution (pardon the expression - those doing the research will see why
the pun) will be to aggressively wet the raw boat, then after it dries out,
pressure wash out that which has come to the surface. Rinse, repeat a
couple of times a week until you're satisfied with the results, and barrier
coat - to, in my case, about 20 mils at a minimum, or as much as 30, despite
the "conventional wisdom" that 14-20 is sufficient.

The barrier coat applied over the prior peel job hadn't done the
wash/rinse/dry, I'm confident, and most of the blisters we cured were under
it. Further, from taking it off, I'm also confident that the level of
buildup of the prior was nowhere near the level of the gelcoat which was
removed before application.

Aside from the delamination (restored after salvage) in the turn of the
starboard bilge, the hull was and is (repair is fine) in great shape.

I'll have pix of the bottom, eventually, in a public site; for now, we
aren't even looking at the pix of the work we've been taking due to wanting
to get out of the yard as quickly as possible. However, there are tiny
pinhole spots showing, and, as I said, there are some metered spots/areas
with a relatively high level. The tiny stuff visible that I've worked on so
far have been very easy to bottom out, but some of them are weeping after
the inital scrubbing (I'm using a round stone in a drill, they're so small).
It will be interesting to see how this wash/rinse affects those areas. I'll
not finish that step until we've done the wash/rinse bits, as they may cure
out themselves, leaving only a tiny surface - dry - blister to remove and
fill.

Thanks for asking. We're rounding 3rd in our getting out of Dodge to go to a
wedding and a family reunion on Sunday, for a week. I'll be offline for
that time, as I'm not taking my computer, where this NG lives, with me...

L8R, y'all

Skip


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