Free boat

neris

Spoted this on afloats for sale section. The boat is in bits and has enough weed growing off it to hide a tribe of bushmen. From what ive seen of the boat the ad isnt bull craping when it says it needs a lot of work

www.afloat.ie/boats-for-sale/welcome/12-sailing-cruisers/529-colvic-ufo27/

Steve

Osmosis isn't cheap to fix - basically means removing all the gelcoat to dry it out.

Tow

Still, you could do the job yourself if you had the time and space. Looking at Apolloduck the asking price for a UFO 27 is 11 to 16k, and if one has osmosis chances are others do!

neris

The boat is for someone who knows what their doing as a project. Youd spend less doing it up yourself over the winter then buying 2nd hand. Their good boats and fairly comfie down below for cruising

Talent

Some interesting restoration ideas here:


http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/28/nyregion/20121028boatgraveyard.html#1

Tabnabs

AFAIK, no boat has ever sank from osmosis...

Skuxx

Tabnabs wrote: »

AFAIK, no boat has ever sank from osmosis...

Was just about to say that!! I was talking to my mechanic about osmosis before, and his words were "listen it's not something you want, but I've never heard of a boat that sank because of it!"

Steve

Tabnabs wrote: »

AFAIK, no boat has ever sank from osmosis...

It's extremely rare but not impossible.

If it's left long enough it can lead to delamination which can seriously weaken a hull and cause undesirable effects such as flexing / rig failure and in extreme seas possibly hull failure or keel loss.

Again, it's extremely rare and unlikely but I have heard of cases where it happened with composite hulls.

Most osmosis curing involves removing the gelcoat down to the start of the glass, drying it out for a few months and then re-building the outer skin.
If you happen to wander around a repair yard and see a hull with areas of gel removed and lots of numbers scrawled beside them, it's an osmosis treatment in the works - the numbers are hydrometer readings.

Good article here on it:
http://www.nauticalweb.com/info/maint/osmosi_e.htm

Tabnabs

Steve wrote: »

It's extremely rare but not impossible.

Absolutely true, but then if you have a Bavaria, there was the uncomfortable stories about keels falling off. Through hull fittings fail and can cause a boat to sink rapidly, standing rigging fails quite regularly in racing with potentially disastrous consequences.

In the overall scheme of things, osmosis is just another thing on the list that could cause that boat to fail

neris

Tabnabs wrote: »

standing rigging fails quite regularly in racing with potentially disastrous consequences.

Speaking of rigging collapsing