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During the last several months we've encountered numerous boats that have concealed compartments within the hull, we've long advanced the used boat for sale argument that builders should make as much of the interior of a hull as accessible as reasonably possible, instead, the opposite, sail boat for sale.
Has occurred where a majority of builders today are building boats in such a way as that almost no area of house boat for sale the internal hull is accessible, not even the bilges, apparently either one of two things is happening, either the builders are fishing boat for sale too stupid to know any better, or -- and we hope this isn't true -- the.
Builders who do this think pontoon boat for sale their customers are too stupid to know any better, though surely they can't believe that there aren't some surveyors around who bass boat for sale will fail to show this situation up for what it really is, creating concealed compartments in a boat hull defies all jet boat for.
Sale common sense and principles of good boat building for a wide variety of reasons, not the least of which was exemplified boat trailer for sale by several 10 year old sea ray boats that we recently looked at, what is meant by concealed compartments are areas boat for sale by owner under the cabin sole which are separated and divided by stringers and bulkheads, and covered over by the cabin sole with used sail boat for sale no hatches, what you end up with are fairly large void spaces beneath the deck for which there is no way used house boat for sale of.
Knowing what is going on down there because the area cannot be seen, let's say that you hit something and power boat for sale poked a small hole in the hull, there's no way you could get at the hole to temporarily plug it up lake texoma boat sale and possibly save the boat from sinking, naturally, that sort of thing only happens to other people, so why would.
Anyone boat motor for sale want to know or even care what's going on down in those blind spaces? the two sea rays mentioned earlier provide boat for sale florida a very compelling answer, on one of those two boats, the deck-to-hull joints came.
Loose and sprung some very serious water boat houston sale leaks, every time the bow nosed into a wave, water would come streaming in through the deck joint, bear in commercial fishing boat for sale mind that most boats leak at the deck joint because they're just screwed together, and this is where the water comes used pontoon boat for sale from most.
Of the time, yet there are numerous other ways that water can get into these hull compartments, such as boat sale detroit leaking plumbing, concealed compartments fromed by stringers notice here that two sets of stringers create five compartments, then, if you.
Add used bass boat for sale in bulkheads, each one will double the number of compartments, with two bulkheads, you could end up with 15 concealed compartments boat sale dallas beneath the cabin sole, do they all have drainage? and guess where that water was ending up, yes, right into the boat bill of sale aforementioned void spaces, the illustration above shows how it is possible that concealed compartments formed by the stringers could fill up free boat bill of.
Sale with water, even when the area is filled with foam, the water is either going to lay on top of the boat sale minneapolis foam, or work its way down between to foam and stringers, of course, your first response to this might be Cheap Boats
that baja boat for sale surely there were limber holes in the stringers to facilitate the drainage of any water that might accumulate outboard of the used boat trailer for sale stringers -- a not unreasonable response, however, in these two.
Cases there were not any limber holes, and without any access lund boat for sale to the area to see what was going on down there, there was no way for the boat owners to know, used power boat for sale how would you know if there are limber holes (simply put, a limber hole is a drain hole made through.
Any boat sale seattle hull structural member)? when the entire inside of the hull is sealed off, neither you nor your surveyor has any way boat sale sacramento of knowing, on the previously mentioned boats, these compartments filled up with water, on one, the blind space filled up with aluminum boat for sale water because that was where the air conditioning condensation drain was routing the.
Water, the end result was that the hull boat sale chicago stringers rotted out-- the stringers being nothing more than slabs of plywood stapled together and painted over with gel coat instead jon boat for sale of being fully encapsulated in fiberglass, unfortunately, we are finding conditions like.
These more and more frequently as the state of shrimp boat for sale boat building today increasingly denies all common sense rules of construction (rules? what rules?) and increasingly focuses more on high fashion ski boat for sale and styling rather than sound construction principles, of.
Course, situations like these are of little consideration to the first owner of used fishing boat for sale the boat, for it takes many years for these design faults to manifest themselves into major problems, almost always long after texas boat for sale the warranty has run out, it's the used boat buyer, the second or third owner who faces the major impact of used boat motor for sale these design faux pas, at least in most cases, but not always, we are.
Left to wonder how many of new Cheap Boats
repossessed boat for sale boat owner's complaints of a boat's failure to achieve the advertised speeds are the results of boats that are hauling around boat for sale minnesota an extra couple hundred gallons of water, another boat brand recently encountered sought a different solution, that was to fill the salvage boat for sale compartments with foam, the brochure for the boat claimed that filling the non accessible hull spaces with foam made them quieter, tug boat for sale possibly that is true, but it also had an.
Unanticipated side effect, the water that leaks into these foam filled compartments new boat for sale simply fills up the irregularities of the foam-filled spaces, then it lays there in contact with wooden hull structurals such as ohio boat for sale.
Bulkheads and stringers with the same predictable results, not to mention becoming stagnant and smelling bad, sort of like having your michigan boat for sale own private internal swamp, at no extra charge, if what i've described here doesn't see.
Like a big deal, maybe i donzi boat for sale can draw an analogy that will get your attention, imagine owning a home with a basement with no entry to the boat 4 sale basement, you know something's going on down there but you don't know what, of course, you know that something has to boat for sale ontario do with water, and the wonderful effects thereof, the worst of the situation is that not even surveyors can pick up boat sale austin on such things, most.
Of the time he can't even tell if the compartments are full of water, unless some time wooden boat for sale has passed and the water is now starting to come through the sides of the stringers, all that a surveyor can ranger boat for sale do is to state that he can't access an area, and that he has no idea of what is going on boat for sale in texas there, the very least a builder should do is to provide some visual access to all.
Partitioned areas in a hull, sea ray boat for sale meaning any area that is closed off from other compartments, who are the worst offenders? typically, the builders of "express" type boat sale st louis cruisers and so-called "family cruisers," most all are the same: sealed Cheap Boats
off compartments with no access, such problems are least found boat slip for sale in motor yachts and sport fishermen where there is less compelling reason to cut costs by eliminating the extremely high cost san diego boat for sale of cutting a small hatch in the deck, the bottom line is that if the builder doesn't provide access.
To the boat for sale in florida most critical areas of the hull, there is good reason to be suspicious as to why not, is there something to boat for sale california hide down there? * * * * * resolving the problem in most cases, resolving.
The problem is not particularly difficult, dive boat for sale all you have to do is create some hatches for each of the concealed areas, pull up the interior carpet, if speed boat for sale it's all secured with tack strips like in your home, know that boat carpet need not be installed this way, experienced boat for sale canada owners just lay the carpet down and leave it loose so that it can be removed easily, if you've got foam boat sale los angeles padding under it, it won't move much, next, locate the stringers.
And suitable places to cut a hatch opening, to do duck boat for sale this, try to figure the lowest point in the hull in the forward cabin area and where water is most likely bayliner boat for sale to settle, of course, much will.
Be determined on where you actually have the deck space to do it, keep in boat for sale hawaii mind that less than the ideal place is better than no place, you should shoot for having at least one hatch wakeboard boat for sale opening per area separated by stringers.
Most likely you'll already have one in the center section, so that will only mean catamaran sail boat for sale four additional hatches, if you have an area that is covered over with something like a galley unit, which is paddle boat for sale likely, you might simply want to just use a 3" hole.
Cutter and make an inspection hole, just something big enough missouri boat for sale that you can shine a flashlight down there and see if any water is accumulating, to keep the hole plug from used boat for sale ontario Cheap Boats
falling through, simply glue and clamp a couple of small battens on the underside of the deck, then you can place commercial boat for sale the cut plug back in the hole you just cut, typically, it takes about a full day to create a set small boat for sale of full hatches, or you can have your yard do it for.
You, a decent size hatch would be about 10" boat sale portland oregon x 16" or thereabouts, much depends on the space you have available, in contemplating cutting the deck, you have to consider mastercraft boat for sale the possibility of there being wires or plumbing below the deck, it's unlikely, but better safe than sorry, you could use used jon boat for sale.
A jig saw or sawzall, but that long blade is going to cut through a hose or wires if any exists boat chris craft sale at that point, the better choice is to use a circular saw, cut a pilot hole using a hole saw so lobster boat for sale that you can measure the plywood thickness, also, check to see if the compartment is filled with foam, if so, then sea doo boat for sale there's not much point in making a hatch.
When a couple of small inspection ports will do, but if there's water boat for sale in minnesota laying on top of the foam, you've got a whole different ball game, set the saw blade depth at exactly the boat sale nassau sole thickness, in this way, you'll be least likely to cause unanticipated damage or problems, once the opening is cut, next boat sale fort worth we have to create a lip around the perimeter of the hatch in order to hold it up, some 3" wide sunfish.
Sail boat for sale strips of 3/4" plywood will do the trick, it's best to cut a 45 degree miter on the ends to get boat sale washington dc a good fit, now, attempting to attach these battens with screws isn't going to work very well, so you'll bolt them boat sale baltimore instead, with a 3/4" plywood sole, that means that you'll need about 30 1-3/4" 1/4-20 stainless bolts per hatch, place a boat for sale bc batten along the perimeter with only 3/4" protruding from the under side, that means that 2-1/4" will be back under the wooden sail boat for sale deck, giving you a 3/4".
Lip, next, you'll drill your holes in a staggered or zigzag pattern, with one row close house boat for sale california to the edge, and another row set toward the far edge, then, counter sink the holes for the bolt heads, this boat sale philadelphia will give plenty of.
Strength to the battens so that they won't break loose under load, you'll find that popping the boat for sale wisconsin bolts in and tightening up the nuts goes quickly, and is much easier than attempting to use screws, route or.
Round alumnacraft boat for sale over the bottom edge of the hatch cover and that's it, if you've got a problem with water leakage into the sail boat for sale florida compartment, now you're going to find out about it, Cheap Boats
and have the.
Opportunity to correct the problem before it wrecks the wood boat for sale boat, some well-placed limber holes in the stringers will do the trick, but be sure to seal the exposed edges of laser sail boat for sale any holes you make in the stringers, a little epoxy glue and light glass cloth will do the trick.
During the last several months we've encountered numerous boats that have concealed compartments within the hull, we've long advanced the used boat for sale argument that builders should make as much of the interior of a hull as accessible as reasonably possible, instead, the opposite, sail boat for sale.
Has occurred where a majority of builders today are building boats in such a way as that almost no area of house boat for sale the internal hull is accessible, not even the bilges, apparently either one of two things is happening, either the builders are fishing boat for sale too stupid to know any better, or -- and we hope this isn't true -- the.
Builders who do this think pontoon boat for sale their customers are too stupid to know any better, though surely they can't believe that there aren't some surveyors around who bass boat for sale will fail to show this situation up for what it really is, creating concealed compartments in a boat hull defies all jet boat for.
Sale common sense and principles of good boat building for a wide variety of reasons, not the least of which was exemplified boat trailer for sale by several 10 year old sea ray boats that we recently looked at, what is meant by concealed compartments are areas boat for sale by owner under the cabin sole which are separated and divided by stringers and bulkheads, and covered over by the cabin sole with used sail boat for sale no hatches, what you end up with are fairly large void spaces beneath the deck for which there is no way used house boat for sale of.
Knowing what is going on down there because the area cannot be seen, let's say that you hit something and power boat for sale poked a small hole in the hull, there's no way you could get at the hole to temporarily plug it up lake texoma boat sale and possibly save the boat from sinking, naturally, that sort of thing only happens to other people, so why would.
Anyone boat motor for sale want to know or even care what's going on down in those blind spaces? the two sea rays mentioned earlier provide boat for sale florida a very compelling answer, on one of those two boats, the deck-to-hull joints came.
Loose and sprung some very serious water boat houston sale leaks, every time the bow nosed into a wave, water would come streaming in through the deck joint, bear in commercial fishing boat for sale mind that most boats leak at the deck joint because they're just screwed together, and this is where the water comes used pontoon boat for sale from most.
Of the time, yet there are numerous other ways that water can get into these hull compartments, such as boat sale detroit leaking plumbing, concealed compartments fromed by stringers notice here that two sets of stringers create five compartments, then, if you.
Add used bass boat for sale in bulkheads, each one will double the number of compartments, with two bulkheads, you could end up with 15 concealed compartments boat sale dallas beneath the cabin sole, do they all have drainage? and guess where that water was ending up, yes, right into the boat bill of sale aforementioned void spaces, the illustration above shows how it is possible that concealed compartments formed by the stringers could fill up free boat bill of.
Sale with water, even when the area is filled with foam, the water is either going to lay on top of the boat sale minneapolis foam, or work its way down between to foam and stringers, of course, your first response to this might be Cheap Boats
that baja boat for sale surely there were limber holes in the stringers to facilitate the drainage of any water that might accumulate outboard of the used boat trailer for sale stringers -- a not unreasonable response, however, in these two.
Cases there were not any limber holes, and without any access lund boat for sale to the area to see what was going on down there, there was no way for the boat owners to know, used power boat for sale how would you know if there are limber holes (simply put, a limber hole is a drain hole made through.
Any boat sale seattle hull structural member)? when the entire inside of the hull is sealed off, neither you nor your surveyor has any way boat sale sacramento of knowing, on the previously mentioned boats, these compartments filled up with water, on one, the blind space filled up with aluminum boat for sale water because that was where the air conditioning condensation drain was routing the.
Water, the end result was that the hull boat sale chicago stringers rotted out-- the stringers being nothing more than slabs of plywood stapled together and painted over with gel coat instead jon boat for sale of being fully encapsulated in fiberglass, unfortunately, we are finding conditions like.
These more and more frequently as the state of shrimp boat for sale boat building today increasingly denies all common sense rules of construction (rules? what rules?) and increasingly focuses more on high fashion ski boat for sale and styling rather than sound construction principles, of.
Course, situations like these are of little consideration to the first owner of used fishing boat for sale the boat, for it takes many years for these design faults to manifest themselves into major problems, almost always long after texas boat for sale the warranty has run out, it's the used boat buyer, the second or third owner who faces the major impact of used boat motor for sale these design faux pas, at least in most cases, but not always, we are.
Left to wonder how many of new Cheap Boats
repossessed boat for sale boat owner's complaints of a boat's failure to achieve the advertised speeds are the results of boats that are hauling around boat for sale minnesota an extra couple hundred gallons of water, another boat brand recently encountered sought a different solution, that was to fill the salvage boat for sale compartments with foam, the brochure for the boat claimed that filling the non accessible hull spaces with foam made them quieter, tug boat for sale possibly that is true, but it also had an.
Unanticipated side effect, the water that leaks into these foam filled compartments new boat for sale simply fills up the irregularities of the foam-filled spaces, then it lays there in contact with wooden hull structurals such as ohio boat for sale.
Bulkheads and stringers with the same predictable results, not to mention becoming stagnant and smelling bad, sort of like having your michigan boat for sale own private internal swamp, at no extra charge, if what i've described here doesn't see.
Like a big deal, maybe i donzi boat for sale can draw an analogy that will get your attention, imagine owning a home with a basement with no entry to the boat 4 sale basement, you know something's going on down there but you don't know what, of course, you know that something has to boat for sale ontario do with water, and the wonderful effects thereof, the worst of the situation is that not even surveyors can pick up boat sale austin on such things, most.
Of the time he can't even tell if the compartments are full of water, unless some time wooden boat for sale has passed and the water is now starting to come through the sides of the stringers, all that a surveyor can ranger boat for sale do is to state that he can't access an area, and that he has no idea of what is going on boat for sale in texas there, the very least a builder should do is to provide some visual access to all.
Partitioned areas in a hull, sea ray boat for sale meaning any area that is closed off from other compartments, who are the worst offenders? typically, the builders of "express" type boat sale st louis cruisers and so-called "family cruisers," most all are the same: sealed Cheap Boats
off compartments with no access, such problems are least found boat slip for sale in motor yachts and sport fishermen where there is less compelling reason to cut costs by eliminating the extremely high cost san diego boat for sale of cutting a small hatch in the deck, the bottom line is that if the builder doesn't provide access.
To the boat for sale in florida most critical areas of the hull, there is good reason to be suspicious as to why not, is there something to boat for sale california hide down there? * * * * * resolving the problem in most cases, resolving.
The problem is not particularly difficult, dive boat for sale all you have to do is create some hatches for each of the concealed areas, pull up the interior carpet, if speed boat for sale it's all secured with tack strips like in your home, know that boat carpet need not be installed this way, experienced boat for sale canada owners just lay the carpet down and leave it loose so that it can be removed easily, if you've got foam boat sale los angeles padding under it, it won't move much, next, locate the stringers.
And suitable places to cut a hatch opening, to do duck boat for sale this, try to figure the lowest point in the hull in the forward cabin area and where water is most likely bayliner boat for sale to settle, of course, much will.
Be determined on where you actually have the deck space to do it, keep in boat for sale hawaii mind that less than the ideal place is better than no place, you should shoot for having at least one hatch wakeboard boat for sale opening per area separated by stringers.
Most likely you'll already have one in the center section, so that will only mean catamaran sail boat for sale four additional hatches, if you have an area that is covered over with something like a galley unit, which is paddle boat for sale likely, you might simply want to just use a 3" hole.
Cutter and make an inspection hole, just something big enough missouri boat for sale that you can shine a flashlight down there and see if any water is accumulating, to keep the hole plug from used boat for sale ontario Cheap Boats
falling through, simply glue and clamp a couple of small battens on the underside of the deck, then you can place commercial boat for sale the cut plug back in the hole you just cut, typically, it takes about a full day to create a set small boat for sale of full hatches, or you can have your yard do it for.
You, a decent size hatch would be about 10" boat sale portland oregon x 16" or thereabouts, much depends on the space you have available, in contemplating cutting the deck, you have to consider mastercraft boat for sale the possibility of there being wires or plumbing below the deck, it's unlikely, but better safe than sorry, you could use used jon boat for sale.
A jig saw or sawzall, but that long blade is going to cut through a hose or wires if any exists boat chris craft sale at that point, the better choice is to use a circular saw, cut a pilot hole using a hole saw so lobster boat for sale that you can measure the plywood thickness, also, check to see if the compartment is filled with foam, if so, then sea doo boat for sale there's not much point in making a hatch.
When a couple of small inspection ports will do, but if there's water boat for sale in minnesota laying on top of the foam, you've got a whole different ball game, set the saw blade depth at exactly the boat sale nassau sole thickness, in this way, you'll be least likely to cause unanticipated damage or problems, once the opening is cut, next boat sale fort worth we have to create a lip around the perimeter of the hatch in order to hold it up, some 3" wide sunfish.
Sail boat for sale strips of 3/4" plywood will do the trick, it's best to cut a 45 degree miter on the ends to get boat sale washington dc a good fit, now, attempting to attach these battens with screws isn't going to work very well, so you'll bolt them boat sale baltimore instead, with a 3/4" plywood sole, that means that you'll need about 30 1-3/4" 1/4-20 stainless bolts per hatch, place a boat for sale bc batten along the perimeter with only 3/4" protruding from the under side, that means that 2-1/4" will be back under the wooden sail boat for sale deck, giving you a 3/4".
Lip, next, you'll drill your holes in a staggered or zigzag pattern, with one row close house boat for sale california to the edge, and another row set toward the far edge, then, counter sink the holes for the bolt heads, this boat sale philadelphia will give plenty of.
Strength to the battens so that they won't break loose under load, you'll find that popping the boat for sale wisconsin bolts in and tightening up the nuts goes quickly, and is much easier than attempting to use screws, route or.
Round alumnacraft boat for sale over the bottom edge of the hatch cover and that's it, if you've got a problem with water leakage into the sail boat for sale florida compartment, now you're going to find out about it, Cheap Boats
and have the.
Opportunity to correct the problem before it wrecks the wood boat for sale boat, some well-placed limber holes in the stringers will do the trick, but be sure to seal the exposed edges of laser sail boat for sale any holes you make in the stringers, a little epoxy glue and light glass cloth will do the trick.
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