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Re: Legal recourse to a bad survey
Posted By: Skipper Dick In Response To: Legal recourse to a bad survey (STeveZ)
Date: Monday, 1 May 2006, at 7:14 p.m.
Steve,
I have a B28 also and it is an 83 year. The problem with these boats is that they have a wet bilge. The hatch gutters usually have a hole in it at some point to let water drain into the bilge. I have found that if you don't have a flanged piece of tubing in the hole with a piece of hose attached to the bilge side of it to direct the flow of rain water or sea water that washes aboard, the water will invarably drain on something that will corrode and just leaving water in the bilge will help corrode just by keeping moisture in the bilge area. I have fought to keep my bilge dry since I purchased it over a year ago and have gone around with CX and a wire brush and cleaned everything that was corroded. Then I wiped it with lacquer thinner and painted it. I have a bilge you can eat out of now, but I had similar problems as you even though the boat was completely repowered in 1998 and there was a stab made at cleaning up the bilge and painting it with bilge paint which has almost all chipped off and I have cleaned and repained it. I had to replace both pillow blocks on the rudders and I sprayed them with CX to keep them frisky.
These are absolutely the best boats built, but if the corrosion isn't kept ahead of, things will get crappy easy. Most surveyors that I know have come to expect that type of corrosion from an older boat, but having not seen yours at first hand, you may have a case.
Good luck
Dick
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