gel coat missing!!!

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I intend to buy a boat that when I saw,
her gel coat is totaly ...missing.
The owner told me that the privious guy accidenticaly
removed it using an electrical wheel and now
she has an epoxy coating.
As I suspect that she had an osmosis treatment
does his senario make any sense to you?
 
It may well have had an osmosis job done but no way does anyone grind off all the gelcoat"accidently".Its a huge job.

You have allready been told one porky about this boat it would make me wonder about anything else the owners tell you.
 
OK !!!!!!!
Our Hurley had the gell coat removed and epoxied, it did not have osmosis at he time, it was done as a precaution, at the right price as the wife worked in the boatyard. At least you know what you have with it.

Brian
 
The problem here is not that the gel coat has been removed and it's been epoxied. There could be a perfectly legitimate reason for doing that. It's the fact that he is a lying toad.... no one grinds off all the gel coat "accidentally". If the boat has been treated for osmosis you need to know when, by whom, and why. If professionally done there should be a guarantee of some sort. His story is a "cover" for something. Walk away.
 
However just to balance the argument. The gel coat is purely cosmetic in as much that if the surface looks OK with epoxy then that is possibly better than the original gel coat in terms of osmosis.

All old boats lose parts of the gel coat in accidental damage and it doesn't seem to cause that much problem. I sugest you may be able to use the lack of gel coat the unknown treatment and the porkies as a lever to a better price. olewill
 
But how does he know what lurks under the epoxy? I saw one boat where water was actually visibly leaking through the laminate. when we ground the epoxy away from the outside about half the laminate had been removed (looked like a hammer and chisel job) before being filled with what looked like car filler and epoxied over. After removal of the epoxy the filler fell off!
Unless a repair has been effected properly by a known outfit, which should be documented and guaranteed, I would not trust any boat. Done properly epoxy repairs are fine and you are correct that epoxy can be better than the original polyester gel coat. Done badly they can hide all kinds of bodges. I still say walk away.
 
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