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From: Jacques Lamontagne (no email)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 11:22:14 EDT
> Gerad
I'm in exactly the same situation as you. First of all, we plan on
sailing as a family and my wife told me it's steel or it's nothing.
No amount of talking will convince her otherwise. So steel it is.
She decided this after visiting a 36 foot steel boat. It was 12 years
old and just beautiful (in the end, the owner took her off the
market). He did everything right:
-Sand blasted white, then...
-Coal tar epoxy inside followed by paint, then foam everyhwere except
the easy to access bilge - microscopit quantities of rust there, dry
as a bone.
-Complete Epoxy barrier treatment outside.
-Stainless front deck (where anchor and chain often cause dings,
followed by rust)
No visible rust, anywhere and she had not been painted for years -
Seriously!
One defect: A while back, the boat had been hit squarely on the port
side by a fishing trawler going full speed ahead . As a result, the
boat had (I'm not lying) a 1 inch dent on the edge of the deck.
Nothing else. After seeing that, and imaging the same incident
hapening on our current fiberglass boat, her mind was set.
Now finding a good 37-42 ft used steel boat on the east coast of
North America - that's another story. If somebody is selling one,
send me an email.
Cheers,
Jacques
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