Used Boat Blisters and Hydrolysis - Part 5

7/30/2008
11:47AM

This morning I met Tom, from Boat Savers down at my used trawler, the Patricia Ann. It had been 4 weeks since he had last checked on her and he wanted to get a status of where he was.

On Monday of this week I had a survey on another boat and my surveyor let me use his moisture meter to get a look at the hull readings. I subsequently called Tom to report that the numbers looked good.

The moisture readings were quite low, below 15% in most areas. There were some "hot" spots but Tom explained that that was to be expected. It was impossible to get all of the moisture out. But he went on to say, he's done over 1000 boats and can touch the hull with his hand and look at the hull to know when it was ready to put back together.

And yes, he said, we're ready to go on to the next step.

Tom's coming back in two weeks to begin step 3; sand the hull with 36 grit paper. The next day, step 4, he'll fill the bottom then the next day the bottom will be faired, step 5.

It will be exactly 10 weeks and two days when Tom will begin putting her back together.

Stay tuned, I'll be posting more photos so you can see whats happening.

Mike