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Re: Other: Please help me revive a boat
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 12/12/2011, 4:42 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Please help me revive a boat (Bryan Hansel)

: Pretty much all the advice you need is:

: 1. Remove the glass in the areas that are bad by sanding, pulling
: and knife.
: 2. Sand to good wood or replace rotten wood.
: 3. Sand the wood smooth and feather the glass.
: 4. Fiberglass the repair. Cut a piece of glass to fit the repair.
: Cut a piece of glass the extends one inch beyond the repair all
: around it. Epoxy away.
: 5. Varnish.

: There's a lot of detail that goes with this, but this gives you a
: good overview.

In addition, if you find that the blemishing is too deep to sand out you might consider, after performing the above mentioned tasks, a nice paint job.

Have you done a good inspection of the interior. Boats tend to rot from the inside out. It looks like you have a basically nice boat though. I would bargain the owner up to two years of usage for the work. That will give you time to build a replacement.

Et

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Other: Please help me revive a boat *PIC*
louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:19 am
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louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:25 am
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louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:30 am
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louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:34 am
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louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:39 am
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louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:43 am
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louisd75 -- 12/12/2011, 12:51 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 12/12/2011, 1:18 am
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Etienne Muller -- 12/12/2011, 4:42 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/12/2011, 7:12 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/13/2011, 4:45 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/13/2011, 12:26 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/14/2011, 2:32 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 12/12/2011, 4:45 am
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Eric Mattison -- 12/13/2011, 2:20 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/12/2011, 7:11 am
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John Messinger -- 12/12/2011, 8:21 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/13/2011, 4:48 am
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les cheeseman -- 12/14/2011, 11:50 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/15/2011, 2:55 am
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John VanBuren -- 12/12/2011, 4:40 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 12/12/2011, 10:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/13/2011, 4:50 am
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louisd75 -- 12/13/2011, 11:23 pm
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louisd75 -- 12/13/2011, 11:32 pm
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louisd75 -- 12/13/2011, 11:52 pm
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robert l -- 3/18/2012, 8:03 pm
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louisd75 -- 12/13/2011, 11:49 pm
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louisd75 -- 12/14/2011, 12:01 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/14/2011, 2:38 am
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