zapcat
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Can anyone give a rough price on epoxy job on a 26' fin keel yacht please
Epoxy treatment costs
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KieronRyan
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DIY or full board?
gas
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Just the bottom, or just the topsides, or both, or...? By "epoxy job" do you mean blister repair, or epoxy paint, or deck resurfacing? More details, please.
zapcat
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ooh err um - possibly looking at a boat that has 'higher levels of moisture readings in hull' after the last survey and want an idea of what it may cost to have work done professionally - dont have any more details than that im afraid. Havnt seen the boat as yet.
alienzdive
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how much does it cost to store on a hard and let dry out naturally?
mikejames
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10 years ago £220 per metre LOA +
+ a coat of antifoul £200 + iron keel fairing £900 + VAT for the whole job ... including gel coat stripping , drying out ,with regular steam cleaning, checking moisture and heating when nearly dry.
In the end I handed over £4000 for a 24 footer's underside. All I had to do was strip the antifoul then leave it to the pro's.
DIY could be a lot cheaper but it involved a lot of work to do properly.
I had a budget of £10k for my boat and decided that £6k for the boat and £4k to make the hull good was worthwhile _at_the_time_
+ a coat of antifoul £200 + iron keel fairing £900 + VAT for the whole job ... including gel coat stripping , drying out ,with regular steam cleaning, checking moisture and heating when nearly dry.
In the end I handed over £4000 for a 24 footer's underside. All I had to do was strip the antifoul then leave it to the pro's.
DIY could be a lot cheaper but it involved a lot of work to do properly.
I had a budget of £10k for my boat and decided that £6k for the boat and £4k to make the hull good was worthwhile _at_the_time_
Topcat47
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Don't just go on moisture readings. I did and when we peeled the hull the only sign was a small area at the base of the keel. Make sure you don't have voids in the hull full of water. The moisture meter ought to be able to differentiate between them.
£4k is minimum. Get a firm price. Those extra's can be a right [--word removed--].
£4k is minimum. Get a firm price. Those extra's can be a right [--word removed--].
PembrokeshirePromise
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As said - be cautious about just meter readings.
I had a surveyor who was about to find problems - till I pointed out the steel water tanks seemed to pretty much coincide with the area where there seemed to be an issue (suspect it was the steel not the water that messed up his readings - but the end result is the same !)
I had a surveyor who was about to find problems - till I pointed out the steel water tanks seemed to pretty much coincide with the area where there seemed to be an issue (suspect it was the steel not the water that messed up his readings - but the end result is the same !)
Avocet
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Have a really hard think about how bothered you are about the moisture. There are lots and lots (maybe even most?) older boats sailing round quite happily with "higher than average" moistre readings and they don't develop osmosis symptoms!
Ben_e_Toe
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How old is the vessel? If it's fifteen or twenty years old and has high readings but no blisters, then it's only progressing slowly. Also in reality if you buy the boat, there's no point doing the work now, better to do it before you sell it for warranty etc.
homa
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If you are buying then ask the surveyor to look for osmosis and definitely have him mention it in (in detail) in his report if it's there. Get a few quotes from the big yards for the full treatment.
Basically try going for the asking price less the full cost of the osmosis treatment.
Buy the boat and spend the money you saved on other goodies.
Think about doing the treatment just before you sell. You should get most if not all of the money back provided the rest of the boat is up to standard.
Bottom line is osmosis shouldn't affect the structural integrity (surveyor should be able to advise on this), but osmosis does seriously devalue and put the majority of buyers off.
That's how I have managed to buy a 33 foot classic for not much more than the price of my previous 25 foot lift keeler.
I will do the osmosis treatment just before I sell as advised by my local yard (and surveyor). I have just had the boat valued and I recon I should easily recoup the cost of the treatment when I sell.
Happy hunting
Basically try going for the asking price less the full cost of the osmosis treatment.
Buy the boat and spend the money you saved on other goodies.
Think about doing the treatment just before you sell. You should get most if not all of the money back provided the rest of the boat is up to standard.
Bottom line is osmosis shouldn't affect the structural integrity (surveyor should be able to advise on this), but osmosis does seriously devalue and put the majority of buyers off.
That's how I have managed to buy a 33 foot classic for not much more than the price of my previous 25 foot lift keeler.
I will do the osmosis treatment just before I sell as advised by my local yard (and surveyor). I have just had the boat valued and I recon I should easily recoup the cost of the treatment when I sell.
Happy hunting
mikejames
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BTW my surveyor misssed the actual blisters by about 10cm when he scraped the antifouling for the purchase survey.. But he did say the laminate was rather wet. Although I didnt contact him, he seemed to vanish into thin air at about the time I decided I did have an osmosis problem. Reading the report it was pretty clear he expected to find blisters but didnt...
grahama
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don't waste your money, most older boats have higher readings, just like many old houses have slightly higher damp readings than new ones. Unless you can see blisters forget about it.
