Is Fixing up an old sailboat w/ 500 ROTTEN BLISTERS even worth it ?? -Patrick Childress Sailing #60
Is fixing up an old sailboat with 500 huge, rotten blisters worth the time and money?
In this episode, we reflect if it worth doing this blister repair job to our old boat, and how much it cost to do the blister repair, and painting. Should we have just bought a new boat without any hull blisters? Or is any sailboat, old or new, just a treadmill of maintenance and repair?
In South Africa, we did a huge resin blister repair job on our 1976, Valiant 40 sailboat, named Brick House, which took months and months, a lot of work, and some cash. We then painted the boat, and made some other cosmetic repairs before launching her to continue sailing around South Africa, and eventually across the South Atlantic.
Patrick demonstrates how he finished the blister repair, fared, puttied and sanded, and did a total boat restoration on our old Valiant 40. Step by Step, our sailboat is transformed from an old blistered boat to a gorgeous, smooth, sleek looking yacht!
A new boat would be nice...but we there is positive economics with doing work in a foreign country and build equity into our mobile home. Unless someone gives us a nice new Swan 48 that requires no maintenance or upgrades yeah right!) , we will keep up the maintenance on our boat to keep is better than new.
This is a link to Part 1 of our Blister repair... -
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Bumba Crossing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ()
Artist: incompetech – Music and also Graph Paper