Buying fiberglass boat that ran aground and needs keel repair?
 

"Woland99" wrote
Bayliner Buccaneer.

Have you checked this out? (At a glance, I'm kinda glad my boat isn't a BB.)
http://groups.msn.com/BaylinerBuccaneerSloops

Buying fiberglass boat that ran aground and needs keel repair?
 

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote
At a glance, I'm kinda glad my boat isn't a BB.

No offense intended.
I went to the "core repair" forum first, and all those descriptions of wood
rot gave me the willies.

Buying fiberglass boat that ran aground and needs keel repair?
 

Ernest Scribbler wrote:
"Ernest Scribbler" wrote
At a glance, I'm kinda glad my boat isn't a BB.

No offense intended.
I went to the "core repair" forum first, and all those descriptions of wood
rot gave me the willies.




I wouldn't touch a boat with a cored hull with a 50' pole. Some smaller
boats have cored transoms (cored with a closed bubble foam or special
treated ply) and those are okay because it's easy to control and seal
any holes properly, and even replace if it ever is necessary, but a
cored hull...no way. Plus, the few cored hulls I have seen with holes in
them seem to have very thin fiberglass on each side of the coring material.

Buying fiberglass boat that ran aground and needs keel repair?
 

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:47:50 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

You forgot to mention how much it will cost him to dispose of the boat
if he buys it and then realizes it is not worth fixing it.

It is common to see people trying to giving away boats just so they
won't have pay the trash man.

That too. I was once able to get rid of an old Hobie Cat for the
price of a cheap chain saw. We cut it up into small chunks and threw
it out with the trash over a couple of weeks. Before we moved to
Florida I tipped both of our trash pick up guys $20 each for
cheerfully carting away all of the krapp we threw out. They were
astounded. I don't think anyone had ever thanked them before, let
alone tipped them.

Buying fiberglass boat that ran aground and needs keel repair?
 

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:43:06 -0400, HK wrote:

the few cored hulls I have seen with holes in
them seem to have very thin fiberglass on each side of the coring material.

That's the whole idea of course, cut down on the amount of heavy
fiberglass by substituting a lightweight core, a good concept as long
as the skins stay glued on and the core is undamaged. It is sort of
like a cardboard box however, surprisingly strong right up until the
core gives way, then it's junk.

Buying fiberglass boat that ran aground and needs keel repair?
 

On Oct 29, 4:31 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:43:06 -0400, HK wrote:
the few cored hulls I have seen with holes in
them seem to have very thin fiberglass on each side of the coring material.

That's the whole idea of course, cut down on the amount of heavy
fiberglass by substituting a lightweight core, a good concept as long
as the skins stay glued on and the core is undamaged. It is sort of
like a cardboard box however, surprisingly strong right up until the
core gives way, then it's junk.

A BB with potential major damage, PASS. Even without the damage it is
probably worthless.
I do see a similar age 27' Morgan (good boat) for sale here (NW FL)
for $3800.