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... On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:33:28 -0400, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·" åke wrote this crap: I recall predicting the "Flying Pig" might go as much as six months without new blisters rearing their ugly convexities because you didn't do an adequate job drying out the bottom preferring to believe some nonsense about a daily spraying with fresh water doing the job adequately. I can assure you that fresh water has nothing to do with blisters. My boat sits in fresh water every day and still gets blisters. Skippy believed the crap about in lieu of storing his blistered hull in a low humidity environment for a couple or three years so as to thoroughly dry out the laminate before coating it with a barrier coat that spraying it via a garden hose with tap water every couple of days for a month or so would somehow result in the laminate being completely dried out. I told him it wasn't gonna work and the idiot who advocated it was just that - an idiot. You should sell your boat and buy one that doesn't get blisters. It is the rare freshwater boat that gets blisters because osmosis generally doesn't take place when there's a membrane (hull layup) with fresh water on both sides of the membrane. It is the sal****er boats that have lots of humidity in the laminate and fresh water in the bilge from rain, etc. that get blisters. -- Sir Gregory |
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