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....--- Blister Repair - Barrier Paint - Bottom Paint ---
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When we bought the Endeavour we made one fatal mistake that no one should duplicate. The prior owner had a lot of paperwork for work done and a couple years prior to us buying the boat the bottom had blister repair and new paint. The invoice showed where barrier paint had been applied. The owner honestly didn't know for sure what had been done. When I saw the bill for over $3000 and that barrier paint had been applied I didn't feel it was necessary to haul the boat out and check the bottom. We should of done that even if it would of cost us.
We bought the boat and motored and sailed her from Ft. Myers Beach to the boat yard on Charlotte Harbor where we had her hauled out and put on stands where we would leave her. At that point it became evident that the hull had blisters. It appeared that they had only put barrier paint where they had repaired blisters and then didn't do a very good job of it. We had budgeted about $1200 to put new bottom paint on the boat and hadn't budgeted to strip the bottom of all bottom paint, repair the blisters and then apply a number of barrier paint coats and also good bottom paint. We bit the bullet and proceeded to go down that road.
We got quotes in the $2500 range just to remove all the old bottom paint and what barrier paint there was on the boat. They we found a fellow that specializes in removing the paint with a sand blaster that is designed to do this on boat bottoms. We went that route and he bid $1200 and stuck with that price. He did this after we headed home to Utah.
Then we got Ronnie and her crew to do the actual blister repair and it ended up with way more blisters than what there appeared to be before the bottom was sand blasted. We paid about $2500 for that work and felt it was a fair price for how much work it turned out to be as you will see below.
The hull was sand blasted in June of 2011 after we left the yard. Next we had someone open the major blister areas so they could drain and dry. The boat was left to dry like that for over 6 months until the very end of 2011 when Ronnie's crew started doing the blister repair.
We returned in the spring of 2012 and worked on other projects on the boat and since we weren't going to finish them before returning home we left the bottom alone to dry further.
We then returned in the spring of 2013 and continued working on the boat and that is when we sanded the hull for good adhesion and applied the epoxy barrier paint as show on this page and the bottom paint as shown on the next page.
So we ended up with about $5000 total in fixing and painting the bottom vs. the $1200 we thought we were going to spend. Now with Ruth's passing I'm going to sell the boat and someone is going to get a boat with a lot better bottom than most boats they will find.
The moral of the story is always haul a boat out you are considering buying. Now onto the work we did...
All of the yellow/brown spots above from very large to pinhole size are where blisters were repaird by Ronnie's crew. When we left the boat at the yard the first time we felt there were maybe 50 or so that had to be repaired. Well looking above you can see more than 50 on just one side of the rudder.
Her crew did an excellent job of filling and repairing the bottom with the proper materials. If we would of lived nearer the boat I probably would of taken the job on but would not of enjoyed it.
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