- Joined
- Jun 25, 2008
- Messages
- 10,123
- Location
- Australia
- Vessel Name
- Now boatless - sold 6/2018
- Vessel Make
- Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
There is nothing that makes me reach for a bottle of red and a corkscrew faster, than talk of blisters.
Sarawana has blisters, always has had from what I can gather. She is 33 years old & not in danger of sinking, or from what I can gather, ever likely to be in the next 33 years.
You can buy an awful lot of nice shiraz for the cost of a blister bottom job.
I'm with you on that one Andy. My boat's 39 yrs old, with scattered modest blisters here and there, which have not changed in the 12 years I've owned her. A series of surveyors have all commented they are cosmetic only, and even when the insurance company suggested I have a peel job done, just after I had an insurance survey done while out, and new anti-foul applied. When I advised him of those opinions, showed him close up photos, and advised I had no such intention, he said, "that's ok, you clearly have assessed the situation well, so we are ok with that also. No problem…"
I wish it was going to be as easy to get around the 'new' and recent regulation which says when you sell your boat and need a new gas certificate, gas stoves with no flame out device no longer pass. So even though our stove has been fine for 20 plus years, with never an issue, and I have a remote solenoid activated cylinder shut-off, that is no longer acceptable, so we are up for a totally new stove...
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